An effectual and simple remedy for scarlatina and measles : in a letter to John Simon, Esq., F.R.S., the Medical Officer of the General Board of Health, with an appendix of cases / by Charles Witt.

  • Witt, Charles
Date:
1858
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Credit: An effectual and simple remedy for scarlatina and measles : in a letter to John Simon, Esq., F.R.S., the Medical Officer of the General Board of Health, with an appendix of cases / by Charles Witt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    every other, is fairly entitled to receive. It may have been administered too late; besides, as a part of his treatment, acidulous drinks are recommended, by which, T need hardly say, the medicine would be rendered completely inert. As to the dose of this medicine, it must depend upon circumstances how much ought to be given. Dr. Peart gave six-grain doses in cases of unusual seve- rity. Mr. AVilkinson (in whose steps I have followed,) rarely gave less than three grains, repeating the dose or increasing it according to the urgency of the symptoms. In the Appendix will be found a case (No. 3) in which as much as seven grains were admi- nistered every hour, for the space of twenty-four hours, and during every other hour for the next like space, and this not only with perfect safety, but with complete success. I may add, that a talented prac- titioner, at a well-known town in Hampshire, to whom I had myself mentioned this use of the bicar- bonate of ammonia, and who afterwards extensively used it with unvarying success, assured me recently that he found that the quantity to be administered need only be limited by the special circumstances of the case. I have alluded to the mischief of counteraction caused by acids while under the influence of am- monia. Great care must be taken that no acid drinks of any kind find their way into tlie sick-room ;
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