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Typhus Fever / Dr. John Bingham of Leixlip
The Remedy in fact consists in the use of Mustard - From the favourable effect says Dr. B I have invariable found it to produce on the Patient I place a great reliance on it - especially when administured in the early Stage of the complaint - By giving the Patient if an Adult a Tea Spoonful or Two Drachms of Common Mustard Mixed in a Tumbler of Tepid Water which in less than half an hour will produce a gentle free and Salutary consiticy, merely [distruthening?] the Stomach of its Contents and during the operation I give the Patient about a quart of Tepid water as used in the ordinary vomits Immediately on the Mustard being taken into the Stomach it produces a glow of warmth which pervades the entire System together with a Singular Sensation Scarcely to be described unles by the Patients who have used it that soon changes the Skin from hot dry and uncomfortable feel always to be met with in Incipient Fever into a Soft Moist & cool State which is Succeeded by a gently Perspiration

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Typhus Fever / Dr. John Bingham of Leixlip The Remedy in fact consists in the use of Mustard - From the favourable effect says Dr. B I have invariable found it to produce on the Patient I place a great reliance on it - especially when administured in the early Stage of the complaint - By giving the Patient if an Adult a Tea Spoonful or Two Drachms of Common Mustard Mixed in a Tumbler of Tepid Water which in less than half an hour will produce a gentle free and Salutary consiticy, merely [distruthening?] the Stomach of its Contents and during the operation I give the Patient about a quart of Tepid water as used in the ordinary vomits Immediately on the Mustard being taken into the Stomach it produces a glow of warmth which pervades the entire System together with a Singular Sensation Scarcely to be described unles by the Patients who have used it that soon changes the Skin from hot dry and uncomfortable feel always to be met with in Incipient Fever into a Soft Moist & cool State which is Succeeded by a gently Perspiration