On diseases of the respiratory passages and lungs, sporadic and epidemic : their causes, pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Walter Goodyer Barker.

Date:
1866
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Credit: On diseases of the respiratory passages and lungs, sporadic and epidemic : their causes, pathology, symptoms, and treatment / by Walter Goodyer Barker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    only operates as a powerful tonic to the system generally, but also, through the medmm of the great sympathetic, excites to contraction the re- motest capillaries, relieving the fever and greatly mitigating this symptom; this seems to be the only way that we can explain the well-known operation of this and several other internal reme- dies, such as the oxide and other preparations of zinc, etc. It is most important, also, that the sleep- ing apartment should be well ventilated, and that the bed clothes be not heavy. I have thus given a summary of the treatment of the more important symptoms of this disease; others might be enumerated, but, as I have before stated, my desire has been not to extend the work, but rather to abridge it as much as possible con- sistent with its objects. THE END. T. EICHAKUS, 37, GREAT QUEEN STBEET. W.C.