A treatise on the inflammatory and organic diseases of the brain : including irritation, congestion and inflammation of the brain, and its membranes, tuberculous-meningitis, hydrocephaloid disease, hydrocephalus, atrophy and hypertrophy, hydatids, and cancer of the brain. Based upon Th. J. Rueckert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy.

  • John Charles Peters
Date:
1855
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Credit: A treatise on the inflammatory and organic diseases of the brain : including irritation, congestion and inflammation of the brain, and its membranes, tuberculous-meningitis, hydrocephaloid disease, hydrocephalus, atrophy and hypertrophy, hydatids, and cancer of the brain. Based upon Th. J. Rueckert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    ployed Opium with the best effect, and has sometimes saved an apparently hopeless case. Drop doses may be repeated every four hours, if no unpleasant symptoms present themselves.— Waring. W;kst says: In the treatment of many diseases you see physicians destroy pain by narcotics, and the question naturally suggests itself to you whether you may not sometimes venture in the management of hydrocephalus to mitigate by their means your patients sufferings? The inquiry is one not very easy to reply to satisfactorily. I think, however, that there are two conditions under which you will be justified in trying the ex- periment of giving them. Sometimes the disease sets in with great excitement, and a condition closely resembling mania in the adult, symptoms which may have been ushered in by con- vulsions. In such a case although the heat of the head and flush of the face may have disappeared after free depletion and purgation, and though the pulse is feeble as well as frequent, yet the excitement may be scarcely if at all diminished. Here an opiate will sometimes give relief which nothing else would procure ; your patient will fall asleep and wake tranquilized in the course of two or three hours. In other cases which do not set in thus violently, restlessness, talkativeness, or a kind of half-delirious consciousness of pain in the head, become very distressing as the disease advances, being always aggravated at night, so that your patient's condition seems one of constant suffering. Under these circumstances, I [West] have some- times given a full dose of Morphia, and have continued it every nio;ht for several nights together with manifest relief. Pe- cs TEES CASE 80.—Gross observed during the winter months in a number of children, under 7 years of age, a rheumatic-inflamma- tory affection of the meninges, which he treated according to circumstances with Bellad., &c. In some, the following con- dition prevailed : They were continually in slumber, with snor- ing and half-opened eyes, were awakened with difficulty, on awaking, insensible, complaining of nothing, w7anted nothing, but vomited frequently. Treatment. — Opium 6., cured generally within a few hours. —Arch. 9, 2, 110.