New remedies : with formulae for their preparation and administration / By Robley Dunglison.

  • Robley Dunglison
Date:
1856
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    ACIUUM GALLIOUM. I 1 some of our cuiiuium astringenl drugs maynol depend upon the gallic aoid, as much as, or more than, upon the tannic acid which they con- tain, or upon the tannic acid beooming converted into gallic acid within the body. Recently, be has stated, as the result of his experience in cases of hemorrhage, that gallic aoid was only occasionally buc< ful.1 I>;\ Stevenson9has published aevera] oases to show the ralue of this acid in uterine hemorrhage and hsematuria; and Mr. James 3. I In. has recorded a ease of profuse haematuria, the result of injtu the Lumbar region, which was treated successfully bj it in the form of pill ^\\-1111 extract of gentian—two grains and a half of the acid to each pill,—one of these being given a1 intervals of three hours; and Hom- burger4 prescribed it successfully in Juirnaturia renalis; in bloody diarrhoea accompanying the morbus maculosus; and in the haemoptysis of phthisis. It was administered, with much success, by Mr. T. P.J. Grantham,' in three cases of Purpura hsemorrhagica, in the dose of five grains, every three hours; compound rhubarb pills being given as an aperient. Dr. Christison0 has seen several cases of Menor- rhagia recover promptly under its use. He has likewise seen hse- maturia repeatedly yield to it, and in two instances of hsemoj the hemorrhage rapidly ceased after the third dose of six grains given every hour. Messrs. Ballard and Garrod7 declare it to be one of the most powerful astringents that chemical art has derived from the ve- getable kingdom; and that a tolerably extensive experience by them of its use enables them to declare it to be an invaluable remedy in most forms of passive hemorrhage and JJuxes. The chief of the c in which they have employed it, and where they have found it of the greatest service, are menorrhagia and leucorrhcfa, as well as for check- ing the distressing night-sweats of phthisis. In the first two of I especially, no astringent that they had employed would bear a com- parison with this, either for the rapidity with which the cure was ef- fected, or the permanency of the result. Their eulogy, however, of its action in the night-sweats of phthisis is calculated to throw BOme doubts on the accuracy of their experience in other cases. No medi- cine can be expected to exert much eflicacy on them, any more than on the hectic, inasmuch as they are mere morbid expressions of the condition of the lungs and general system. Messrs. Ballard and Gar- rod state, that if the use of the acid be continued beyond two or three days, it manifests some constipating tendency, whilst Professor Simp- son affirms, that it has this advantage over most other anti-hemorrhagic medicines, that it has no constipating effect. The observations Messrs. Ballard and Garrod are probably the most accurate. They 1 Association Med. Journ., Feb. 1855, p. 186, and Obstetric Memoirs and Contributions of James Y. Simpson, M. D., &C, p. 295, Edinb. Is.,.'). 2 Edinb. Med. ami Surg. Journal. July. 1848. 3 Dublin Quarterly Journal of Mod. Science, cited in Med. Examiner, Julv, 1847, p. 447. 4 Canstatt and Eisenmann's Jahresbcricht iiber die Fortschritte in der Heilkumle im Jahre 1848, S. 140. 5 Association Med. Journ. Sep. 0, 1868, and Banking's Ab-tract. xviii. 81. 6 Dispensatory, American edit by It. ES. Griffith, p. '.'<;7. PhilacL 1S-18.