Outlines of medical treatment / by Samuel Fenwick and W. Soltau Fenwick.

  • Samuel Fenwick
Date:
1891
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Credit: Outlines of medical treatment / by Samuel Fenwick and W. Soltau Fenwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HYDBOTHOEAX. D. The patient should remain in a room warmed to 62° or 65°; and in the early stage, if the expectoration is scanty, the air may he warmed and made moist by the use of the bronchitis kettle. Gr. The removal of the mucus from the bronchial tubes is a matter of primary importance, and if you observe them becoming choked, and the breathing rapid and shallow, you must give emetics. Ipecacuanha is usually employed, in doses of one eighth to one quarter of a grain for a child one year old, repeated, if necessary, two or three times a day. Of late, apomorphia has been strongly recommended in Germany, inasmuch as it excites vomiting without nausea, and without much depression of the heart. It is best to use it hypodermically. Apomorphia should, in my opinion, be employed with great caution and in moderate doses, as I have known it produce very serious depression. Others prescribe senega as a stimulating expectorant, along with ammonia and ipecacuanha. SECTION III. Cheonic Diseases of the Lungs. Htdeothoeax. Prognosis.—This depends upon the nature and gravity of the disease of the heart or kidneys, from which hydro- thorax usually arises. The fluid is present in both sides of the chest, unless one pleura is obliterated by adhesions. Although only part of a general dropsy, it adds greatly to the danger of the patient, by compressing the lungs and
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