Aids to rational therapeutics : specially designed for students preparing for examination / by J. Milner Fothergill.

  • Fothergill, J. Milner (John Milner), 1841-1888.
Date:
1881
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Credit: Aids to rational therapeutics : specially designed for students preparing for examination / by J. Milner Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is to be arrived at. To restore the action of the sudoriparous glands will at once give relief. So it is well to give Pulv. Opii., gr. i. Pulv. Antimonial., gr. v., for an adult, at bed-time. This will probably provide a fair night's rest; then something of this kind may be prescribed : Vin. Antimonial., ]\xx. Liq. Am. Acetat., 3L 6ta quacpie hora, the first dose to be taken early in the morning. Some half-hour after it is taken give the patient a draught of hot fluid, as milk, or beef-tea, or weak tea or coffee, or cocoa. Perspiration is most easily and readily excited about 6 or 7 A.M. (as a phthisical patient can tell you). Repeat this the next morning. The effect of this line of treatment is to make the skin moist, and so aid heat dispersion ; to make the pulse soft, and so to lessen the vascular turgescence of the congested mucous lining of the air passages; and with this lowering of the turgescence secretion is restored, and the mucous membrane is soothed thereby. There is less irritative cough, and the ex- pectoration is easier. The cough set up by the irri- tation caused by the congestion and dryness was useless and exhausting. Now it is less, but it is accompanied by expectoration. This action may be facilitated by the inhalation of steam, or, still better, take a large sponge, wring it out of hot water, dash on it a tablespoonful of turpentine, and let the patient inhale the fumes. Or a large bucketful of boiling water may be placed on the floor of the room, if the patient be a child—for children cannot readily 3