Our family physician : a thoroughly reliable guide to the detection and treatment of all diseases that can be either checked in their career or treated entirely by an intelligent person, without the aid of a physician; especially such as require prompt and energetic measures, and those peculiar to this country. Embracing the allopathic, homeopathic, hydropathic, eclectic and herbal modes of treatment. Also giving full and explicit directions for nursing the sick, preparation of food for the sick, etc. / by H. R. Stout.

  • Stout, H. R. (Henry Rice), 1843-
Date:
1885
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Credit: Our family physician : a thoroughly reliable guide to the detection and treatment of all diseases that can be either checked in their career or treated entirely by an intelligent person, without the aid of a physician; especially such as require prompt and energetic measures, and those peculiar to this country. Embracing the allopathic, homeopathic, hydropathic, eclectic and herbal modes of treatment. Also giving full and explicit directions for nursing the sick, preparation of food for the sick, etc. / by H. R. Stout. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    Hot Stage — As soon as the chill begins to abate, flushes of heat begin to pass over the body, and are rather agreeable thao otherwise. Tlit; coldness finally ceases and is succeeded by a dry, burning heat ; the countenance is flushed, the eyes sparkle, and the mouth is dry and parched ; the temples throb, and there is intense lieadache ; the pulse is usually full and strong ; the urine is scanty and high colored. This stage may continue from two to eighteen hours, or more. Sweating Stage. — Perspiration makes its appearance on the forehead and extremities, and soon spreads over the whole surface of the body. The symptoms of fever, and the pains gradually sub- side, the pulse falls, the mouth becomes moist, and the patient fre- quently fall.^ into a calm sleep, and awakes feeling almost as well as usual. In some cases these stages may be reversed, or one or more of them may be absent, or if they are all .present, only a few of the above symptoms may be recognized. The Quotidian fever usually commences in the morning ; the Tertian, at noon ; and the Quartan in the afternoon. Ague occurs generally in tlie sjiring and autumn, and the autumnal agues are tl)e most severe. Causes. — The principal, if not the only, cause of intermittent fever is marsh miasma or malaria, arising from the decay of vegeta- ble matter. The time which elapses from the exposure to the mal- aria to the occurrence of the fever is variable. The attack may not occur for months, and then be brought on by the system becoming weakened, by damp weather, exposure to the heat of the sun, over exertion, a cold bath, or even a dose of purgative medicine. This miasma wafted by the winds, adheres or clings to the leaves of trees—hence it is a good plan to surround the house with groves of trees. Fires destroy the poison. The effect of ague, when the disease has continued for a long time, or been improperly treated, is to cause enlargement of the liver, (gall cake,) of the spleen, (ague cake,) dysjiepsia, dropsy, diarrhoea, etc.