This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt: ...was promoted, and attributes the benefit of the remedy to the vapours of the sulfur, which have long and justly been celebrated. The valuable essay on the Diseases of the army, by Sir John Pringle, contains a number of practical observations of importance in every department of medicine. In recent coughs, after ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1815 Excerpt: ...was promoted, and attributes the benefit of the remedy to the vapours of the sulfur, which have long and justly been celebrated. The valuable essay on the Diseases of the army, by Sir John Pringle, contains a number of practical observations of importance in every department of medicine. In recent coughs, after bleeding, he gives mucilages, oils and ammonia, in the form of an emulsion, and at night laudanum, with the addition of oxymel of squills, or gum ammoniac, which prevents constipation. Later in the disease, oily medicines may disagree. When the symptoms continue, and begin to assume the form of hectic, he repeats the bleeding Clapier Journ. Med. XVIII. 59. Avenbrugger de percussione thoracis. 8. Vienn. 1763. Sir J. Pringle's Observations on the diseases of the army. Ed. 4. 8. Lond. 1764. P. 169. once a week; and finds that the greatest benefit is generally observed two or three nights after the operation: he also recommends low diet, and the application of setons, which are still more beneficial than bleeding: if the thirst and heat are so great as to indicate putridity, he prescribes an acidulated diet, and buttermilk, without animal food: for checking the sweats, sometimes sulfuric acid, and sometimes lime water is most beneficial: for a cough depending on ulcers, balsam of Peru, or Copaiba, in conserve of roses, were recommended in the early editions of the work: but in his subsequent practice, the author was often disap-. pointed in his expectation of benefit from balsams, and therefore laid them aside. Air and exercise he thinks of great use, with a milk and vegetable diet. In a cough with an expectoration of a thin rheum, incrassants may be required, as conserve of roses and opium, adding squills, to prevent the too great obstruction of the secr...
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