Volume 2

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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    but likewife, by acting as a purge, relieved the troublefome tenefmus. I never above twice tried the cerated glafs of antimony, which, in the firft cafe, did not operate at all, though given to the quantity of ten grains; and, in the laft, operated very feverely. The {mall quantity of wax con- tained in this preparation can certainly be of little or no fervice. Emetic tartar, being the moft certain of all antimonials, ought to be preferred. PURGATIVES are of the greateft con- fequence in this difeafe: but at the fame time that.they ought to evacuate power- - fully, they fhould not ftimulate too much. For this reafon, the neutral purging falts anfwer beft; and the medicines of this clafs, to which | have ufually trufted, are . Glauber*, and the bitter purging faltst, In general, I have found the laft operate with more eafe than the former. ‘There being a neceflity for frequent repetitions of thefe medicines, they ought to be rendered as palatable as poflible; and ‘every addition which alters their eafy purgative qualities fhould be carefully avoided. Manna, which ig * Natron Vitriolatum, Ph. Lond. + Magneéfia Vitriolata, Ph. Lond,