Clinical observations on the use of opium in low fevers, and in the synochus : illustrated by cases : with some previous remarks on the epidemic fever, which prevailed in 1785 at Oxford, and in the neighbouring counties : in a letter to John Badeley, M.D. ... / by Martin Wall, M.D.

  • Wall, Martin, 1747-1824.
Date:
1786
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Credit: Clinical observations on the use of opium in low fevers, and in the synochus : illustrated by cases : with some previous remarks on the epidemic fever, which prevailed in 1785 at Oxford, and in the neighbouring counties : in a letter to John Badeley, M.D. ... / by Martin Wall, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    gave evident figns of a remifiion of the dis- order. The Bark was again given on the 16th, and from that time his recovery was uninterrupted. N. B. The above cafes are delivered in a very concife manner; becaufe, as I had no particular view, when I entered them in my journal, the notes relating to them were very fhort, and barely intended to affift my own memory. In the following, more precifion and accuracy will be found, as my attention began to be more particularly directed to this fubjecl by the favourable event of many for- mer trials. C A S E V. On the 13th of January, 1786, Martha Cripps, a young woman of the parifti of St. Martin, became my patient. She had been ill feven days. She was at firft attacked with rigor and pains all over her, fucceeded by fome degree of heat and acute pain in the head, want of fleep, lofs of appetite, and extreme dejection of fpirits. She had taken, before I faw her, fome dofes of Rhubarb, and the Bark : but her body had been bound, till