Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet ; translated with alterations and additions, Robert Norton.

  • Louis Martinet
Date:
1830
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Credit: Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet ; translated with alterations and additions, Robert Norton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    yt> \POPLK\S above fifty years old, or has had occasional sen- sations of numbness, these precautions are doubly imperative. [The following is an analysis of the treatment of apoplexy recommended by Dr. Abercrombie, one of our latest and best writers on the subject. As soon as possible after the abstraction of blood, our first great object, means are to be taken for inducing active purging, as an essential part of the treatment: these measures, together with the ap- plication of cold water, directed in a continued stream against the crown of the head, an elevated position of the body, and exposure to a fresh air, are generally sufficient to effect the removal of the apo- plectic state. Weakness of the pulse and paleness of the coun- tenance do not at all contra-indicate venesection ; [but if the pulse does not rise while the blood is flowing, the arm should be bound up before much has been lost, otherwise the patient may sink into a state of irrecoverable collapse. Bearing in mind this criterion, it will generally be safe to employ the lancet.] The exhibition of emetics in the early stage of apoplexy, is hazardous, and would probably be inju- rious ; but when the system has been reduced by evacuations, and some degree of coma continues, a mild emetic may be very useful. Nearly the same observations apply to stimulants, which may, if necessary, be given with comparative safety, after copious depletion. In the restoration of paralytic limbs, stimulants are often beneficial, but they must be used with caution : keeping the general system, at the same time, low, is an important precaution.]
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