Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine

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Diaphoretics

arterial action is reduced by V.S. or cathartics at which time they mitigate the action, the cordial medicines are now laid aside, and mild cooling medicines, cool air &c are substituted. In these forms of inflamitory fevers after the necessary depletion mild Diaphoretics are indicated to solicit not to force a sweat by the latter we debilitate the patient and often aggravate the disease.

The Typhus fever. They are verry usefull tho much caution is necessary in their exhibition, in the Gravior and Mitior of Cullen mild purgatives, with cold affusions to excite a moderate reaction is verry necessary. The true Typhus of European Towns are little known among us. Tho the yellow fever there succeeded a new modification of Typhus of a verry interesting nature, the symptoms of which I will now give you as it appear’d to me. The disease so Protaeus like deffies any name or arangement. It first began