Medical reports, on the effects of water, cold and warm, as a remedy in fever and other diseases : whether applied to the surface of the body, or used internally / by James Currie, M.D.

  • Currie, James, 1756-1805.
Date:
1808
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    took no medicine but the efferveictng mixture, the dofe of laudanum excepted.—The affufion was ufed four times. CASE III. Dec. 8, 17 91. A woman aged fifty-feven, who had Caught the infection in her attendance on a poor family labouring under fever, came under my care in the hof- pital, fifty hours after the firft attack. She was of courfe in the third day of fever; (he had the ufual fymptoms— head-ache, pain in the back and loins, and third: her tongue was furred and her eyes heavy: her pulfe 96, her heat 101 deg. The affufion of cold water was perform- ed at noon. In a few minutes afterwards the heat under the tongue was 98 deg. the pulfe 80. Towards evening however, the feverifh rigor returned with all the ufual confequences. As foon as the hot (lage was eftablifhed, the affufion was repeated, and with the ufual happy effects. Dec. 9.—Noon—pulfe 90 and feeble—refpiration eafy—heat 100 deg.—The affufion was immediately employed, and again repeated in the evening, fenfible perfpiration, coolnefs, and quiet Qeep, were the confe- quence. Dec. 10.—This day the affufion was twice repeated as yefterday, viz, at noon, and at fix in the evening.—At eight in the evening the pulfe was 76, the fkin foft, the heat 97 deg. the refpiration eafy and natural.—The fever returned no more. This patient ufed no other re- medies but an enema, and after it an opiate, every night. The affufion was ufed twice every day ; in all fix times.