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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    four cafes have come under my care where the medicine failed, when given early, and regularly perfevered in. But I mutt alfo ac- knowledge that the bark has failed in many inftances, when I have not been called in, and confequently could not prefcribe it, till that ftate of the difeafe, when authors think’ its exhibition fafe. How far the bark might have fucceeded in the unfortunate cafes *, had it been given early, is impoflible to de- termine. It is not, however, to my experience on patients alone, to which I. can appeal for the fafety and advantage of giving the: bark early in continued fevers: but I can affirm that, within thefe few years, my own life has been twice preferved by tak- ing it largely and liberally, on the very» firft day of confinement in fevers; at- tended with fuch fymptoms, as would have deterred many Phyficians from pre-' {cribing it. And, did I think it neceflary, I udele adduce. the Sony of feveral? medical * At the Difpenfary, where an accurate regifter has been kept, the proportional mortality, in refpect to the number ad- mitted under my care, labouring under contagious fevers, is as ove to fifteen: but, in many of the fatal cafes, the difeafe was too far advanced to give the deg chance of recovery, before the patients were admitted.