The antidotal treatment of disease / by John Parkin.

  • Parkin, John, 1801-1886.
Date:
1878
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    Method of Treatment to the test of experience. The disease was characterised by a small, obscure pulse; rarely strong or full, and, sometimes, singularly weak and itidiscemible, at the commence- ment of the attack. The pulse did not improve even in the febrile stage ; while fainting, and other symptoms, showed that the vital powers were greatly depressed at this stage, as well as in the former. In the more severe cases, the eruption was petechial; in the slighter, miliary; while, in nearly all, there was either delirium or stupor. Here then was a fever of a typhoid character, which, according to Brownism, indicated a state of the most complete Asthenia. Like a true disciple, Rasori adopted the treatment recommended by Brown, and based on his theory. Fancying, however, that the symptoms were aggravated by this treatment, he resolved to adopt the e.vj^erimentum crucis by employing other remedies, and the opposite mode of treatment. At first, he contented himself with abstaining from stimulants, and ordering cooling drinks, etc.: but he soon employed a more active treatment. He took blood from the arm, once or twice; and administered Tartar Emetic in large quantities.* Prom the time that he changed his treatment, Rasori lost few patients: although the disease was very fatal with other Practitioners, the majority of whom *Storia della Febbve Petecliiale cle Genova negli anni 1799 and 1800. D