Elements of therapeutics and practice according to the dosimetric system / by D'Oliveira Castro.

  • Castro, D'Oliveira.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Elements of therapeutics and practice according to the dosimetric system / by D'Oliveira Castro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    all his directions for a sufficiently long time—that is, until the evidence is satisfactory that a radical cure had been accomplished. The dread of medicines, with which physicians of the regular school have inspired their patients, is the greatest obstacle in the way of obtaining good results from treatment for their patients. If physicians would see to it that empty medicine-bot- tles were thrown away, instead of accumulating and frightening their patients (on account of the quantity of medicine which has been consumed), the patients themselves would have more perseverance in following treatment than they are wont to show. In the treat- ment of chronic and rebellious diseases, in which there is no irremediable vital lesion, it may often be observed that the failure to effect a cure is due to this very want of perseverance, and in no disease is this statement better illustrated than in asthma. /Dominant. \ Variant. j Excitability of the pneu- I mogastric [Rheumatic diathesis /3 I Herpetic diathesis . ss -j Hsemorrhoidal, hepatic -j> congestions, etc. . Other influences / Gastro-intestinal aura Spasm in inspiration £r ] Catarrhal secretion . Cardiac perturbations Congested condition Periodicity of the parox- ysms . I Hyoscyamine. Colchicine. Sedlitz Chanteaud. j Sedlitz Chanteaud. I Aconitine. Suppression of the cause. Lobeline. f Atropine, daturine, mor- J phine, arseniate of | strychnine, bromide of ^ camphor. j Sulphide of calcium, iodo- ( form, scillitine. Digitaline. Aconitine. j Hydro bromate of qui- l nine. Asystolie (or Asystolta).—See Cardiectasis. Athrepsis.—See Pultaceous Stomatitis (under Sto- matitis). Balanitis.—Balanitis is caused by inflammation of the glans penis, or of the preputial mucous membrane, a muco-purulent material being secreted, the fetid char- acter and deleterious action of which depend upon the length of time that it is retained between the glans