An index of diseases and their treatment / by Thomas Hawkes Tanner.

  • Thomas Hawkes Tanner
Date:
1883
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    be described as a severe catarrh, with asthmatic symptoms super- added, due to inhalation of pollen of grasses. Symptoms. Conjunctival, nasal, faucial, and bronchial mucous membranes are each allected. Headache. Suffusion of eyes. Sneezing. Irritation of nose and fauces. Dry harassing cough. Paroxysmal attacks of asthma. TuE.\TME.\T. May be cut short by removal from cause ; residence at sea-side especially. Susceptibility sometimes destroyed by cpiininc and steel; arsenic ; nux vomica. Dariiif/ attack :—Nasal douche or inhalation of atomized solution of quinine (262) or of carbolic acid (262). Tincture of lobelia, 88. Ammonia and assafcetlda, 8(5. Valoi'ian and assafcetida, 9i. Ether and opium witli camphor, 85. Belladonna and zinc, 410. Stramo- ninm. Indian hemp. C'oflee. Subcutaneous injections of atropine, 314. Creosote inlialalions. 201. Pii)e of tobacco. BRONCHOCELE.—From Bpoyxos, the windpipe ; Kr]\7], a swell- ing. Synon. Thyrocole; Wen; Goitre by the Swiss; and in this country Derhi/sJnre Nccl; from its prevalence in some parts of Derby- shire.—An enlargement of the thyroid gland. SY^^PTOMS. The whole gland may be swolleu, or only the centre, ov either side—especially the right. Sometimes no inconvenience beyond the deformity. In other cases, throbbing of vessels, palpita- tion of heart, mental depression, dyspepsia, and other manifestations of attenuated blood, or difficult respiration and deglutition from pres- sure of tumour, or irregularity of uterine functions ; .scanty menstrua- tion ; profuse leucorrhcea. A cijstic form, in which cysts are developed in the gland. Their lining membrane very vascular; brown-coloured serous contents. Cystic bronchocele more uncommon than simple hypertrophy of thyroid gland. E.rnphtliahnlc fjoilre. Synon. (jvarcs's disease, which sec; Ilas('f/.oii;'$ disease. Protrusion of eyeball (proptosis oculi); strong pulsation in thyroid body; palpitation of heart with a bruit. Thk.vtmkxt. Ilemoval from locality in which it is cndcnn'c. Picgular establishment of menstrual I'unctions. Iodide of ammonium, 38- Iodide of potassium, 31. Cod liver oil. Iodide of iron, 32. Quinine and iron, 3S0. Bromide of iron. Steel and aloes, 393. I)igilalis. I>ic|Uor jiotasstc. Jiromidc of potassium. Strychnia. Jjromide of ammonium. Nourishing Ibod. Cold balhing. Sea air. Lneallij:—Dintinent of red iodide of mercury, 302. Compound iodine ointment with cod liver oil, 308. Diluted iodine liniment. (Jintment of iodide of ammoiiiuni. Ointment of iodide of potassium. Ice. Sotons. Ligature of thyroid arlci'ics. J'^lecli-o-pinicturo. Injection wilh sulution of ])crchloride of iron, or willi tinclurc of iodine, or with solution of iodide of potassium, not free from danger. Introduction of drainage tube into cyst, after withdrawal of coutenls by tapping and injection of iodine. Free incision into cysl- and plugging with oiled lint; so as to cause alteration or dcslructiun ol' lining membrane and subsc(juent granulation. Excision of the cyst
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