Medical reports of the effects of tobacco, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries, or cases of pain and difficulty of passing urine / by Thomas Fowler. Together with observations on the medicinal effects of tobacco, from correspondents.

  • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801.
Date:
1788
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Credit: Medical reports of the effects of tobacco, in the cure of dropsies and dysuries, or cases of pain and difficulty of passing urine / by Thomas Fowler. Together with observations on the medicinal effects of tobacco, from correspondents. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ordered to repeat the Infujion in Water twice a Day, beginning with thirty-Jive Drops, and adding from Jive to ten Drops to each Dofe, until a Senjation of Sicknefs is produced. April 14. He has taken the Infufion regularly, the laft Dofe of which was feventy- five Drops, without perceiving either Sick- nefs, or any other Effect, except a flight Heat in the Throat immediately after fwallowing it. He had three Stools Yefterday. His Urine is become pale, and increafed in Quan- tity, and he paffed four Pints laft Night. The dropfical Swellings are evidently diminished. Ordered to take f rom feventy-five Drops to one hundred and twenty, or one hundred and fifty, of the Infufion twice a Day. April 17. He has gradually increafed the Medicine, to the Amount of one hundred and feventy-five Drops in the laft Dofe. It operated as a ftrong Diuretic and gentle Laxative, and produced a flight Giddinefs twice, for the Space of half an Hour. The Quantity of Urine exceeds that of the Liquids taken. He has paffed four Pints each of the two laft Nights, and has had three Stools daily. The Swellings of his Legs continue to leffen. Ordered to take two hundred Drops of the B & Infufion