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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![CHOREA. off, and never return. The practitioner must not, however, inconsiderately, and in all circumstances, pursue this mode of conduct, otherwise he may be guilty of the greatest inhumanity.] CHOREA. This disease generally occurs in young persons, and often ceases at the time of puberty; in undertaking the cure of it, the physician should first ascertain whether it arises from any injury of the brain, or spinal marrow. If there is no evidence of inflammation in these organs, or in the alimentary canal, or of the presence of intestinal worms, and if, which very rarely happens, menstruation is regular, cold bathing and affusion, will almost certainly be sufficient to effect a cure, when the disease is recent: but, should they, on the contrary, fail, we may try, one after another, assafoetida, musk, castor, opium, galvanism, cam- phor, valerian, belladonna, Dippel's oil, and other anti- spasmodics. When chorea has an intermittent character, it should be combatted by bark, or some of its preparations. Chorea often accompanies hysteria, as one of its most prominent symptoms: and, in such instances, must of course be treated like it. In an instance which came under](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193342x_0119.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
