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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    ik CLEINTOAD EXPER. buted to the bark, as, about that time, its effects might be fuppofed to be soins powerful. From thefe four cafes, bark appears to be | fometimes hurtful, fometimes ufeful, in the typhus, according to cireumftances, With regard to thefe, authers are not explicit. They fay it is of ufe when the nerves are affected, the pulfe flat, and there is figh- ing. But that is faying no more, than that the bark im general is good in the typhus. The firft cafe fhows, that it is not proper in difficulty of breathing. This obfervation F have made in other cafes; and it is one of the moft frequent bad effects of bark to increafe fach a fymptom. When there is general fymptomatic fweating, they recommendit; and [agree with them. [havealways found — it ufeful when there is a tremor, which is a frequent fymptom. We may be almoft affu- red of fuccefs, when there is little or no drought. ‘The effects of bark are, in moft points, fimilar to thefe of wine. There - are few difeafes in which they are not e- qually ufeful, or equally hurtful. They differ in this, that the effets of bark ap= pear much later, and laft much longer, than thofe of wine. TINC-