Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet ; translated, with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton.
- Date:
- 1830
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet ; translated, with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![I to attacks of epilepsy, by forcibly extending the liinbs and fingers of his patients. During the continuance of a fit, the patient should be laid on a mattress, and eveiy thing with which he might injure himself, removed out of the way: it is also necessary to keep open the mouth wth a pledget of linon, to.preventhim from biting his tongue or lips. When the fit is very severe, and leaves either the intel- lectual, motive, or sensorial faculties disordered, it will be necessary to abstract blood from a vein, or, if the patient's debility prohibits this, the application of leeches behind the ears, or to the anus, may be substituted, and for some days afterwards we should direct the use of the cold affusion. [Dr. Baillie, after recommending the nse of the nitrate of silver and purgatives, gives the following short directioAS for the management of an epileptic patient. He should live very temperately, and avoid every thing which may tend to excite or harass the mind: he should eat animal food sparingly, abstaining altogether from wine, ale, &c. The hair should be cut short, and cold applied to the head whenever the surface of it feels hot.] £ 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193342x_0111.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
