Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / [Francis Home].

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1780
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Credit: Clinical experiments, histories, and dissections / [Francis Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Exper. II. Dec. 29. 1774. David Brown, .20, was in the feventh day of the fever; in which he had headach, flight cough, a pain under the xiphoid cartilage. Urine high coloured, with a thick cloud, and paf- fed with difficulty. Gentle delirium during twohoursof the preceding evening, P.120, and weak. Cap. mixt. Cort. Per. unc. 1. Sta quaq. hor. which dofe contained drach. 1. of bark triturated with water. On the 8th, p- 102,1n the morning ; p. Tro, in the e- vening. On the goth, p. 108, and moifture on his arms. Lay in a comatofe ftate, and had’a gentle delirium each night fince he began the bark. roth, p. 94, and a general moifture. 1rith, p. 87, and much {weat, which f{melled ftrong. Notwithftand- “ing the coma and delirium, which were common fymptoms, at this time, I incline to think that the bark had good effects, as the fkin was moift after it. For, when it does hurt, the fkin becomes dry, and the brea thing worfe. But, that it carried off the fever, I cannot affert. ~ Exper. HI. December sth, Sufannah Wharton, 21, affected with typhusfor feven ‘days. Took for fome time a folution of tart. emet. On 313th day of the fever, with