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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    imminent, nothing but extreme exhaustion must be allowed to deter him from applying leeches to the throat, and acting on the bowels by drastic purga- tives : if suffocation seems inevitable, tracheotomy must be performed. When the inflammation is in a chronic stage, the employment of antimonial diaphoretics is indicated, together with mucilaginous and aromatic drinks, the insertion of an issue near the trachea, dry friction of the whole body, sulphureous waters, the habitual use of flannel next the skin, and of woollen stockings. If every thing else fails, and the bowels are un- affected, drastic purgatives may be employed with safety and advantage, as was fully proved by Dr. Hamilton; it is necessary, however, to watch their effects. [Acute laryngitis, on account of the rapidity with which it runs its course, is an extremely dangerous affection, and will generally prove fatal, unless a most active and powerful treatment be pursued. Bleeding is so far from being sufficient, that Dr. Bailie doubted whether it aided the cure of this inflammation. After the copious abstraction of blood, Dr. Armstrong advises the exhibition of col- chicum, which has a remarkable power in subduing the action of the heart, and inducing general relaxa- tion. I have seen great benefit follow the use of calomel in very large doses. In the Med. Chir. Trans, vol. 6, Sir G. Blane strongly recommends covering the whole surface of the thorax with a blister.] CROUP. When the practitioner is called to a patient whom he Buspects to have croup, he must not wait to
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