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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![• .press my belief itliat in some at least of those most unhappy instances in which women shortly after delivery sink into a profound and fatal collapse, death might be averted by the iimely application of the hot air bath. In cases of this description, the nervous system has sustained such a shock that the blood no longer flows through the capillaries of the surface ; it consequently; accumulates about the central organs of circulation, and the heart sympathizing with the nervous system, and oppressed with its unusual load, ceases to act. The manner in which this condition is re- moved by heated air has been just stated, and is indeed obvious.] If apoplexy occurs while the stomach is loaded with food, it is best to direct our earliest attention to the more dan- gerous disease, that is, the affection of the brain, and with- out delay to abstract blood, especially as this operation will often'occasion vomiting, and thus accomplish both objects. The influence of a loaded stomach in producing apoplexy, especially in those advanced in life, is well known. If however vomiting should not occur, it may be easily provoked by tickling the fauces with a feather; a plan always preferable to the use of emetics, being free from the danger of exciting inflammation in the stomach, or, which is no less to be dreaded, of augmenting, by reiterated efibrts to vomit, that cerebral congestion which it is our great object to diminish ; we may besides order soothing drinks, and simple or purgative injections so as to evacuate the intestinal canal more speedily.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193342x_0079.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
