The family adviser; or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of families who have not the advantages of a physician, and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkins, M.D.

  • Wilkins, Henry, 1767-1847.
Date:
1804
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Credit: The family adviser; or, A plain and modern practice of physic : calculated for the use of families who have not the advantages of a physician, and accommodated to the diseases of America / by Henry Wilkins, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A copious sweat and discharge of blood from the nose, or an universal yellowness, commonly attend the conclusion of it. After the fever has gone off, a great lightness of the head attends, so that the patient can scarce walk : rheumatic pains, and dropsical swellings sometimes follow. Management. The patient should be kept cool and airy ; he should have plenty of acid drinks, as lemonade, jelly, tamarind water, and for food, he should have toasted bread moistened with a little tea, baked fruits, rice, sago, barley, &c. but these, though proper, will seldom have a place, as the patient can scarce ever contain on his stomach what his little appetite inclines him to take : but the toast has often been found to stay, when no- thing else would. Cure. If the vomiting be considerable, a little camomile tea may be given to promote it a mo- ment or two, that a remission may be procured to give the saline mixture No. 2. one table spoonful every hour. When this sits on the stomach pret- ty well, ten drops of antimonial wine and a little mint water may be added to each dose, and the medicine continued : but if the vomiting be only slight, the best way to procure a remission of the symptoms will be to give an emetic, one tea- spoonful of antimonial wine, may be given every ten minutes until it operates, or 12 grains of ipe- cacuana may be given at once, after which the mixture may be given in the manner directed,with antimonial wine. If the vomiting resists every thing given, or if a remission does not take place in a few clavs, blisters should be used ; on the breast in the first case, on the back of the neck in the last. Some- times a bundle of mint stewed in wine, and ap- plied to the breast, has been found useful ia