A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Smith, Nathan, 1762-1829.
Date:
1824
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Credit: A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Breathing the vapour of wa- ter. Case in which cold afiusion was made. tion of cold water, still it may be occasionally applied with advantage to the head and face. teeth or tongue, it may be relieved by letting water,slowly squeezed froma sponge or cloth, fall on the mouth and over the whole face; this should be repeated often enough to keep the mouth clean and moist. | [ have produced a good effect by laying a piece of thin loose muslin over the face, so as to have the air drawn through it in the act of inspiration, at the same time keeping it con- stantly wet with cold water; in this way, the vapour inhaled into the lungs, proves very grateful to the patient. I could state many cases in which cold wa- ter was applied with the most unequivocal ad- vantage. | In the summer of 1798, the first year in which this fever occurred in amy practice, T. B., a young man of about twenty-five years of age, was brought into my neighbourhood sick of Typhus, for which he had been bled before I saw him; the fever was severe, and his unfavourable symptoms increased for se-