Observations On The Walcheren Diseases Which Affected The British Soldiers In The Expedition To The Scheldt Commanded By Lt Gen The Earl Of Chatham PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1810 edition. Excerpt: ... HAVE now given a general view of the Walcheren Intermittent fever., and stated tlie treatment which was commonly pursued for its removal, where no advene circumstances interfered, and prevented its adoption. The Walcheren Intermittents were not common cases, not such as would, to use a sporting phrase, afford a man fair play, they were so combined with dangerous and perplexing symptom as at times to baffle experience and render the efforts of art fruitless. In a stomach irritatle in the extreme., how ceuld bark, or the usual medicines, be.given with-safety? how could they be exhibited without danger? and when the intestinal canal was irritable, and disposed and success in tTi-eir favor, is net ahvays tieafole because-not always-safe, and all that can be done-in situations so unpjeasftn-t is cautiously to attempt to do good, but still mre caqtioiwly to avoidxdoing harm. t v ' T"' """? '." V x to1 liarplBttj wliatnan woyldfcave-Been mad enough to administer the cuprum, or ziucum vitriolatum? Again where difficult respiration, pain of the breast, and distressing cough existed with a severe Quotidian Intermittent common remedies were positively forbidden, and when in addition to these symptoms there was often vis.ceral disease, anagarcofr swellings, and" great of '-' '---.-., .;..-'., s' "ft, ...'r-.1 Tlie Walcheren.-Intermittents we 6ften aitetrdfcd Tpitb pnlmenic syinpttottis/ and such "caes were alvnTtjis exceedinty festmalej for Avhile paiw of the brcwst/diffieyltif epiratin dis trfessing cough, antl troublesome expectoratioft existed it was impossible to adcrpi any effectual hieans-of xrurte, and' as pulmonic syiBptotus"-villj and in these cases, did cotitraue for a vey considerable time...