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1 part antimonial wine, & 2 parts Clutton's
febrifuge; to be taken according to my note.
yours BV |
Somewhat ignorant
of Mrs. D's first form of attack, & the regular
train of her subsequent symptoms, I am ignorant also whether
the whole be one or two diseases. If there is pleurisy
which has supervened from cold caught, I think to gain
a day by giving the bark is hazardous; & the same, if
spasm has supervened. I suspect the latter, from its
frequent cessation & the effect of anti-spasmodics; from
the attempts made to remove irritants from the alimentary
passages not having the result, which might be expected,
were such irritants concerned. -- I therefore have conceived,
if a tonic is to be used, that bitters & chalybeates might
have trial, rather than bark; or at least, that the bark should
be confined to as much only as enter into our new medicine.
The bark seems to lead the blood to the regions of the thorax,
& the chalybeate to the surface & extremities. Why
might not our new chalybeate be tried alone, or diluted with
vinegar & water, at the rate of a grain or two / dose. --
What say you to zinc?
Last night I gave
1 part laudanum,
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