Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet... Tr., with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton.

  • Louis Martinet
Date:
1832
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Credit: Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet... Tr., with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    The exhibition of emetics in the early stage of apoplexy, is hazardous, and would probably be injurious ; but, when the system has been reduced by evacuations, and some degree of coma continues, a mild emetic may be very useful. Nearly the same observations apply to the stimulants, which may, if necessary, be given with comparative safety, after copious depletion. In the restoration of paralytic limbs, stimu- lants are often beneficial, but they must be used with caution, keeping the general sys- tem, at the same time low, is an important precaution.] SOFTENING OF THE BRAIN. After the minute details into which we have entered on the treatment of the preceding diseases, namely, encephalitis, arachnitis, and apoplexy, we need not be detained long in considering that of Softening of the Brain, F
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