Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifices, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / by Thomas Fowler.

  • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Medical reports of the effects of blood-letting, sudorifices, and blistering, in the cure of the acute and chronic rheumatism / by Thomas Fowler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    He fhould alfo abftain from fermented liquors altogether, except occafionally a little wine in whey, gruel, water, or the like. Reft of body, compofure of mind, an airy room to lleep and fit in, with moderate covering, both of apparel and bed-clothes, are like- wife objects deferving attention. As foon as the febrile fymptoms and pains are materially diminished, debility confli- cting the chief part of his complaint, and his appetite returning, he may begin to mend his diet, by gradually renaming the ufe of animal food with a little ale or wine at his dinner, in order to accelerate the reco- covery of his ftrength. With refpedl; to regimen in the treatment of the chronic rheumatifm, it may be Ef- ficient, that the patient obferve temperance, in his diet, and general mode of living. The anomalous cafes of chronic rheu- matifm, complicated with other difeafes, originating from fprains and bruifes, were for the moft part materially relieved by the general anti-rheumatic treatment: but the cafes which depended upon a venereal taint were either not at all relieved by the fame treat-