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 same measures shbuld be resorted to in cases of convulsion of the limbs or face, combined wi|h loss of j;on- sciousness, and coma, when these last symptoms have recently arisen, and the strength of the patient is not too much exhausted; in opposite circumstances, any further loss of blood would only accelerate the fatal issue of the disease. It is to aflFusions, the continued application of cold water to the head, and to warm baths, that we must then trust, unless there is unnatural coldness of the surface of the body, a state of which we shall speak more fully afterwards. But as soon as blood-letting ceases to be followed by any amelioration of the disease, if the symptoms of affu- sion advance, and the patient becomes gradually weaker, with a pulse either extremely quick or extremely slow, we must endeavour to produce a powerful revulsion by insert- ing a seton in the nucha, applying moxa or the cautery over ! some part of the skull, rubbing in antimonialor ammoniacal ' ointment behind the ears, and by mercurial frictions at the 1 angles of the lower jaw, or on the hairy scalp, so as to ex- ' cite profuse salivation. It is at this period, if the alimentary canal is free from mflammation, that calomel is employed with the greatest advantage, whether as a sialagogue, or only as a common V purgative. For either purpose, four grains, or more if ne- cessary, [and it is extremely difficult to produce salivation in hydrocephalus] may be given three or four times in the <lay; bat with respect to this medicine, it may be well to c](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193342x_0059.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
