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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    ~,,> (EDEHA OF THE 1 i gatives, and tlio exhibition of tartarized antimony, according to the system of Rasori. [It is difficult to believe that the exhibition of tar- tar emetic in the manner recommended by Laenncc, can be devoid of danger; yet, the high moral and intellectual character of tMs great physician, for- bids the unqualified rejection of his statements; moreover, in allusion to them, the late Dr. Cullcn says, I know them to be quite correct, from the testimony of English physicians, eye-witnesses of his practice. Tommasini asserts, that out of one hundred and fifteen cases of pneumonia, treated with the tartar emetic, (conjointly with bleeding, &c.) only fourteen died ; and Dr. Forbes, who, as an English practitioner, will, probably, be considered a safer authority on this subject, says, During the last two years, I have used the tartar emetic (after pretty copious venesection however) in a good many cases of pneumonia. In all, the termination was favourable. In no instance but one have I seen any bad effects from it; and, in this, it was incau- tiously administered without due reference to the co-existence of gastric irritation. The only objec- tion to its use, appears to me to be the severity of its operation, previously to the establishment of the tolerance.'] CEDEMA OF THE LUNG. (Edema of the lung, whether idiopathic, a sequela of measles, or co-existent with a general dropsy, requires the same treatment as this last disease, After having applied one or two blisters on each side of the chest, the whole surface of the body is to bo rubbed over with the tincture of squill, digital]!,
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