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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    r, CHOKK \- This disease generally occurs in young persons, and often ceases at the time of puberty; in under- taking the cure of it, the physician should first ascer- tain whether it arises from any injury of the brain, or spinal marrow. If there is no evidence of inflammation in these organs, or in the alimentary canal, or of the presence of intestinal worms, and if, which very rarely hap- pens, menstruation is regular, cold bathing and affu- sion will almost certainly be sufficient to effect a cure, when the disease is recent: but, should they, on the contrary, fail, we may try, one after another, assafcctida,musk.castor,opium,galvanism,camphor, valerian, belladonna, Dippel's oil, and other anti- spasmodics. When chorea has an intermittent character, it should be combatted by bark, or some other of its preparations. Chorea often accompanies hysteria, as one of its most prominent symptoms ; and, in such instances, must of course be treated like it. In an instance which came under the observation of the writer, it followed epilepsy.* It is better in such a case to do nothing, for a considerable time at least, lest we should bring back the original and more formidable disease. [According to Dr. Hamilton, purgatives will almost infallibly cure chorea; no medicines, proba- bly, are equally useful in this disease, yet in some cases they fail, although fairly tried. Numerous cases have been published, illustrative of the great efficacy of arsenic ; and the sub-carbonate of iron appears scarcely less powerful..] See the Revue Medicalc, Vol. IV. page fl.
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