The medical formulary: being a collection of prescriptions, derived from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent physicians in America and Europe. To which is added an appendix, containing the usual dietetic preparations and antidotes for poisons / By Benjamin Ellis.
- Ellis, Benjamin, 1798-1831.
- Date:
- 1831
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The medical formulary: being a collection of prescriptions, derived from the writings and practice of many of the most eminent physicians in America and Europe. To which is added an appendix, containing the usual dietetic preparations and antidotes for poisons / By Benjamin Ellis. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 58] CLASS V. DIAPHORETICS. DURING the exhibition of this class of medicines - the patient must be confined to his bed; and when diaphoresis is once excited, every precaution must be taken lest it be suddenly checked. Venesection must generally be resorted to when there is much arterial excitement with great heat of the skin, before we attempt to give diaphoretics. Where the skin continues steadily hot and dry, all external warmth must be removed, and cold water freely applied to the temples, hands, feet, &c. while the room is to be kept cool by a free current of fresh air. Under these circumstances cold water may be frequently and plentifully drunk by the patient. Dia- phoretics given in conjunction with these general means, will act with much more certainty than if great heat of the surface is maintained by covering the patient with heavy bed-clothes. If it be desirable to produce perspiration when the heat of the skin is not above the natural standard, we shall obtain our object most readily by placing the patient in a warm bed, giving him warm drinks freely, placing his feet in warm water, or applying hot bottles, or bags of sand, to the different parts of his body. The bags of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33287508_0060.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
