Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D. one of His Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh.

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1783
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Credit: Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / by Francis Home, M.D. one of His Majesty's physicians, fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, and professor of materia medica in the University of Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    meter, it will Simulate lefs, and relax more. If above tha^degree, it will Simulate more, and relax lefs. The fomentation was tried when the heat was not above that of the hu- man body, and the pulfe became fuller, not quicker. But the heat fhould be greater, that it may, when applied in the typhus, Simulate more, as the chief ufe of it is to raife the pulfe. C A M P H I R E. Camphire has been recommended and ufed in the typhus. Exper. XXIV. July 30, 1769. Dun- can Clerk, 13, with head-ach, purging, noc- turnal delirium, on the 12th day of the fever, had the camphire in this form; R camph. ferup. i. diffolv. in muc. gum. Arab. unc. i. add. aq. cinn. f. v. unc. i. aq. font. unc. ii. M. cap. unc. i. 4ta.quaq. hor. When he took the medicine, his pulfe was 112, and the heat of his body 102 deg. Ten minutes after, pulfe 104, and heat the fame. Twenty minutes after, pulfe 108, and heat the fame. On the 14th, his pulfe was 84; Tut I attributed the change more to fome wine he had taken, than to the camphire. 5 Exper.