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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    increasing and decreasing the' dose1! according as the symptoms deepened or were relieved. Then von would put cold to the head, as pounded ice and salt or clotns saturated with eau de Cologne, or vinegar and water. Instead of bleeding, you would probably nnd it more convenient to use a brisk cathartic, as Elaterii, gr. _l_ Pulv. Scam. Co., 3i. Free copious watery stools take away a quantity of water from the blood, and so deplete an inflamed area through the blood generally. Opium is not o-ood in inflammations within the cranium or thorax ;&but below the diaphragm, and in inflammations in the limbs, it is invaluable. If it is a case of pneumonia, then it may be well to prescribe : Vin. Antimonial., ii]_xx. Liq. Am. Acetat., 51. 6ta quaque hora. To put on a large jacket poultice, and so to dilate the_ vessels of a large cutaneous area, is ' to bleed the patient into his own vessels' pretty effectively • or aconite might be used as at p. 34. If, however, the patient be seen when the disease is far advanced, and the danger be imminent, then you must avert death if possible. The patient is pale, the respiration is very rapid, the pulse weak and thread-like—the patient, indeed, is dying with pulmonary engorgement and a right heart distended nearly to paralysis ; and where the right heart is throbbing and palpitating in its attempts to carry on its work; then you would try to keep the heart and respiratory muscles at work, and would combine direct stimulants to the respiratory