Volume 6

Sajous's analytic cyclopedia of practical medicine / by Charles E. de M. Sajous ... assisted by Louis T. de M. Sajous ... with the active co-operation of over one hundred associate editors.

  • Charles E. de M. Sajous
Date:
1922-
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    and in enteritis. It is also serviceable in enterocolitis or cholera infantum. It re¬ lieves pain and checks hemorrhage from gastric ulcers. Gastralgia is relieved by this remedy. Resorcin has been useful in pertussis and hay fever, in the form of a spray from a 2 per cent, solution and internally in doses of 10 drops of the same solution. In a 2 per cent, solution, it is a bene¬ ficial application to tuberculous lesions of the larynx, and in purulent and ulcer¬ ative affections of the throat and nose; in the nose the solution should not be stronger than 1 per cent. In diphtheria resorcin is a valuable topical remedy. In asthma and emphysema resorcin has been given in doses of from 5 to 15 grains (0.3 to 1 Gm.). Resorcin has been used topically in skin affections of a subacute or chronic character, in solution or ointment vary¬ ing in strength from 1 to 10 per cent, or more. It should be borne in mind that weak solutions (1 to 3 per cent.) harden the skin, while stronger ones (10 to 50 per cent.) macerate and destroy it. In chancroids, painful ulcers, and sup¬ purating and sloughing wounds resorcin may be used externally in solution or ointment (1 to 10 per cent.), in injection or spray. Absorbent cotton and gauze may be medicated with resorcin for sur¬ gical dressings. In aphthae, stomatitis, and thrush, a 1 or 2 per cent, watery solution of re¬ sorcin is an efficient application. W. REST CURE.—DEFINITION.— The Weir Mitchell treatment by rest, isolation, and forced feeding is a radical and rational measure combin¬ ing the fundamental desiderata for restoring exhaustion states. [The system, viewed as a whole, is ap¬ plicable to the repair of pronounced de¬ grees of depleted vitality caused by a large variety of causal agencies. A peisonal ex¬ perience of many years as assistant and later chief of clinic to Weir Mitchell, enables me to speak with confidence and knowledge of his methods and results. Doubtless his extraordinary personality, penetration, judgment, and clinical skill all contributed to his brilliant successes. He devised and used it in combination with remedial agencies which in many instances proved the point of departure toward re¬ covery of a multitude of heretofore baf¬ fling or incurable conditions. The utility of rest treatment is to be evaluated not so much upon the reason¬ ableness of mere rest, isolation and forced feeding as upon collateral factors differing with each case. These are ever the same in principle, but vary with cir¬ cumstances under which the process is begun, and the amount of authority per¬ mitted the physician for the exercise of control over the patient. Above all, final success cannot be expected unless caution is exercised in slowly but judiciously re¬ storing customary activities and responsi¬ bilities. J. Madison Taylor.] Among the factors in a full course of rest treatment are all those agencies which contribute to what may be termed reconstructive per¬ sonal hygiene. This includes full physical and mental relaxation, all those measures of revised life and conduct which make for improved nutrition and elimination, and, fin¬ ally, education in constructive activ¬ ities. The process is one of education, training and retraining of the body and mind. Hence, in the training of the body attention is given to various organs and systems, e.g., the respiratory, the digestive, the sense organs, the skin, the skeletal structures, joints, etc. Many individuals, as clinicians well know, are ignorant of the essen¬ tial principles of mental and bodily hygiene. This is just as true of those amply supplied with luxuries as those who are deprived of them. Discipline, concrete guidance, en¬ forced attention upon the need of normal function and its regulation can be especially well supplied while the individual is removed from dis-