Massachusetts spy and Worcester advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1823-1825, 1825-02-23

lest you needessly multiply it; nor to drive
| 1T by stimulus too much in its farther prog
ress, lest unnecessary pain and tumor DC M
duced.
The greater the eruption, the more milk
should, if possible, be taken, especially on
the third day OF its appearance, and onward ;
for, if profuse, it can never be well filled
without some kind of moist nourishment, in
sufficient quantity, and no other is equal to
the milk, which is medicine, as well as food
| and drink. Other medicine and drinks, hon.
ersr stinnalant they may be, are insufficient
TO I'LL the peck 'cith purllent naatteT-'sutTa'
nee7t an due abundance must do At, or nothing
aciU.
If the above is correct, nauseatng drugs
and lax bowels are improper in most cases of
the small pox, and | may add, tL-t in difficult
cases, they, by their dishearening and debil-
itating effects, frequently retard eruption in
dangerous degree, or exceedingly multiply it,
with a neatly aspect, when it at length APP
pears; and in a farther stage tend to its retro
erosion, or at least are an obstruction TO its
due filling, 10y preventing the reception, re-
tention and digestion Of the necessary quanti-
ty OF food and drink. These sentiments are
in opposition to old books, and to a too gen
erai practice; but TO me it is evident, thai
practice the reverse of that inculcated in
this pal agraph, and in my first above remarks
ON the treatment of the stomach, has slain its
thousands.
1t will be perceived that the remarks in the
last paragraph apply only to difficult cases,
where very profuse or unfavorable eruption
has appeared, or, from the symptoms, is appre-
hended. But when the symptoms are of no
extra ,Lo,1
there Is an eruption, and state, as to health,
no way very unpromisng, very little manage
ment is necessary. The cool system, with its
appropriate abstemious regimen, should be
continued, and too costive habit removed in
the gentiest way.
have thus confidently recommended a
tree use of new milk, as above. from my own
long and happy experience of its adaptation
TO the stomach of the patient in most cases, as
well as of its nutritive and medicinal effects
IN the same; and it is well worthy Of remark,
that IN difficult cases of persons poisoned or
snake bitten, it is likewise medicinal, and &C.
ceptable to the stomach; and that in these
cases, as in many Of the former, acid medi-
cines and drinks are disrelished and injurious.
Hence, and from every relative circumstance,
am convinced that practitioners, in treating
the small pox, may more oroftably by far as
simulate their measures to those proper in
many cases of posons, than to those proper in
common fevers, &c. TO which the small pox
is, in IFS nature and proper treatment, entirely
opposite, as is evinced by the very general
and lamentable result when any person who, at
unawares, is taken i'll with the symptoms of
that disease in the natural way, is of course,
treated by his physician "a is usual in the in.
cipient stages of other fevers-and from evil
dent facts of this kind, long observed, the rea-
son is, to me, explained, why prudent nurses
OF long experience in the small pox, when
they have happened, in dangerous cases of
that disorder, to fail Of any professional advice
or aid, have very generally succeeded far
better in saving the life OF the patient by
treatment dictated by their own experience
and reason, than when guided by the most &C.
complished physician, whose attention had
not been so long and generally called to
that disorder as to have observed the absolute
necessity Of treating IT on Il plan very distinct
from, and, in dangerous cases, opposite to his
habltual practice in other common ailments. a
distinction wh'ch as, Tbelifre, reg imperfectly
noticed an any treatise e1tant.
City of Hudson, Feb. 1925.