Treating Typhoid? Excerpts from the Journal of Prescriptions, Maitland Gaol Treatment of prisoner William Cheesborough who died in Maitland Gaol of typhoid endemic fever on 23rd December 1882 11th December 1882
Liquor Pot. Sod Carb...three times a day Oatmeal and stewed meat & blue powder 1 every night
13th December
Oil if required and Calomel‌ Corn Flour 1 pint milk
14th December
...add bromide 1 tablespoon every three hours Light soup Fly blister right side
17th December
...give beef tea
18th December
Add to meds bromide and fly blister back
19th December
...small dose oil and chlorodyne
22th December
Port wine and brandy
23rd December
Linseed P on body
What is a Fly Blister? A fly blister is a plaster of the ointment of Spanish flies (cantharides), applied to create a blister upon some part of the body.
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