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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![Weakness of the pulse and paleness of the countenance, do not at all contra-indicate venesection ; [but if the pulse does not rise while the blood is flowing, the arm should be bound up before much has been lost, otherwise the patient may sink into a state of irrecoverable collapse. Bearing in mind this criterion, it will generally be safe to employ the lancet.] The exhibition of emetics in the early stage of apoplexy, is hazardous, and would probably be injurious; but, when the system has been reduced by evacuations, and some degree of coma continues, a mild emetic may be very use- ful. Nearly the same observations apply to stimulants, which may, if necessary, be given with comparative safety, after copious depletion. In the restoration of paralytic limbs, stimulants are often beneficial, but they must be used with caution : keeping the general system, at the same time, low, is an important precaution.] ENCEPHALITIS. As long as the symptoms of disorder in the head amount to nothing more than those of determination of blood, or when there is only the coincidence of a slight disturbance](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2193342x_0092.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
