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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![the obsenation of the writer, it followed epilepsy.* It is better in such a case to do nothing, for a considerable time at least, lest we should bring back the original and more formidable disease. [According to Dr.Hamilton, purgatives will almost infal- libly cure chorea: no medicines probably, are equally useful in this disease, yet in some cases, they fail, although fairly tried. Numerous cases have been published, illustrative of the great efficacy of arsenic; and the sub-carbonate of iron appears scarcely less powerful] CATALEPSY. If catalepsy is accompanied with sopor, so as to indicate congestion in the brain, it is prudent to abstract blood, either by leeches or the lancet, and at the same time, to order cold applications to the head, and counter-irritants to the feet. When assured of the reality of the disease, we may attempt to cut it short, or prevent the return of it, by the application of cupping glasses, simple or armed, to the nucha, sternum, or epigastrium, by cold affusion, tlagellafion • See the Revue Medicale Vol. IV. page 9.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193342x_0120.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
