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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![Cretas Prep., 3i. Tinct. Opii., 111.x. Tinct. Catechu, 5 ft. Aq. Menth., 5L 4ta quaque hora. or: Ac. Sulph. Dil., v\xv. •Tinct. Opii., ]\x. Inf. Haematoxyli, 5L 4ta quaque hora. To this may be added : Cupri. Sulph., gr. l/2 . Pulv. Opii., gr. i. Ext. Hfematoxyli, gr. ii. at bed-time. If there be much pain, an enema con- sisting of a pint of starch with a drachm of laudanum may be thrown up the bowel. Then there is the diarrhoea of hot weather, which is as well let alone as regards medicine, and where a milk dietary is sufficient for mild cases. Whenever the tongue is furred, especially with a yellow fur, encourage the diarrhoea, and do not attempt to stop it. Where there is the pale stools of children, without bile in them, known as ' the white scour/ in warm neighbourhoods, give three grains of calomel. In diarrhoea in infants, look and see if there is undigested milk curd in the stools. If so, mix the milk with some lime-water, and add a dessert spoonful of baked Hour, or some baby's food, to prevent a firm curd forming. Also do this when curd is found in the stools of a typhoid fever patient. When the diarrhoea is uramiic in old kidney disease, and there is either complete or partial sup-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b20393131_0091.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
