Aids to rational therapeutics : specially designed for students preparing for examination / by J. Milner Fothergill.
- Fothergill, J. Milner (John Milner), 1841-1888.
- Date:
- 1881
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Aids to rational therapeutics : specially designed for students preparing for examination / by J. Milner Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![when not present; this can be prevented by com- bining with them belladonna, thus : Liq. Morph. Mur., ]\x\. Liq. Atrop. Sulph., n\iii. Aq. Menth., 51. is a most excellent night draught. Then cough may be a neurosis, as is often seen in children of both sexes, and in young Avomen, simulat- ing the cough of phthisis, and often causing much needless alarm. Here a tonic like Easton's syrup, or any of the iron tonics given before, will do good. Or it may be well to give Pot. Brom., 3fi. Tinct. Fer. Mur., U\x. Aq. Menthse, 5!. Ter in die. If this lock up the bowels, as it is very apt to do, give a Col. Co. pill at bedtime ; or add Mag. Sulph., 3L, to each dose. To treat a cough properly is often to 'get great credit; but to do so you must, usually, be clear as to what it is due to, and treat it accord- ingly. . . . . It may be due to vascular congestion, as in mitral disease, and then digitalis will do more good than any cough mixture. This brings us to the matter of the treatment ot palpitation. Where palpitation is not brought on by- effort or increased by effort, do not give digitalis, but bromide of potassium. But when the arteries are empty and the veins are full, and^effort brings on pal- pitation, then give digitalis; no matter what the con- dition of the heart, whether mitral disease be present](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20393131_0086.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
