Volume 3

Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries, : particularly on those in the East Indies ; and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain. / By John Clark, M.D.

  • Clark, John, 1744-1805.
Date:
M. DCC. XCII. [1792]
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Credit: Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries, : particularly on those in the East Indies ; and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain. / By John Clark, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or two tea-{poonfuls of ether * occafionally to a dofe of the decoction of bark. When tremors and convulfive twitchings of the mufcles prevent the patient from getting reft, befides the ufe of opium at night, it 1s proper to give it in {mall dofes along with the bark in the day time; as in the prefcription’ N°. 14. When opti, agrees with the patient, and allays fpa{- modic affections and delirium, it ought to be continued: But, when there 1s great determination to the head, it ought not to _ be pufhed too far; and, I cannot help ob- ferving, that I have feen the moft ferious ‘confequences arife from the intemperate ufe of this medicine, in the latter ftages of fevers, in the hands of the followers of a certain fpeculative theorift. During the ufe of the bark, it is pro- per to Keep the bowels regular, either by ‘clyfters, or the occafional ufe of rhubarb : but when a profufe diarrhcea happens, which is a moft dangerous fymptom in con- tagious fevers, it ought to be moderated by abforbents given in a large dofe; and by ‘the ufe of the warmer kinds of opiates, fuch as the confectio ofiata of the London Dafpenfatory. — , The | * fither Vitriolicus, Ph. Lond,