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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![fourth of a grain to ten grains, and when the high excite- ment has ceased, the application of blisters.] CHRONIC HYDROCEPHALUS. It is of little practical importance, whether this disease is congenital or acquired, but it is highly important to take into consideration the condition of the patient's general health. If this is tolerable and the disease stationary, we must not run any risk of making the child worse by very pow- erful measures, as success iu the treatment of hydroce- phalus will always gfreatly depend on the preservation of the health in other respects. In this case, it is better to be contented to maintain a regidar action of the bowels, by the exhibition of rhubarb, castor oil, and calomel, in small doses: eruptions on the head, or discharges from the ear, which are so common in childhood, are to be kept up by poultices of epispastics, and, if their suppression has occasioned the disease, they should be reinduced by applying blisters over the place where they formerly existed. We should order nourishing food, with small quantities of wine, and direct the friends of the child to take every opportunity to invigorate his c 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193342x_0067.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
