Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge.

  • Ridge, Benjamin
Date:
1861
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Credit: Ourselves, our food, and our physic / by Benjamin Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    N.B.—These medicines, unlike those of an alkaline charac- ter, may he given cold. Should the throat he sore, which is always more or less the case, let the mixture be taken into the month, and if it bo not too hastily swallowed, the throat ^dll get well gargled therewith. In these cases it is imperative that the bowels should bo kept as free from any action as possible, because success is always most certain when no action occurs from the commencement to the height of the fever, which generally takes throe or four days. If the bowels act natu- rally, add a larger portion of paregoric. Should any inordi- nate action come on, or more even than one or two actions take place every twenty-foiir hours, the brain will become disturbed, as indicated by wanderings of the mind and pain across the forehead. An'est these purging actions by half a grain or a grain of opiimi in the form of a pill. It is seldom, however, that the brain is affected if the bowels are quiet. Some cases of scarlet fever are very mild; others are attended with a slight engorgement of the lungs which will bo indi- cated by the tongue presenting a glary-red and varnished, slimy aj)pearance, accompanied by more or less distress in the action of the heart. Those appearances do not occur unless there is a low typhoid state, when the stimulus of wine, &c., may be necessary. 61. Take— Dilute sulphuric acid 5* ^ drachm. Ipecacuanha wine 5‘ ^ >» Syrup of red jwppies ?;ii 2 drachms. AVater . ... ,^vss 5i ounces. Alix. Give one tahle-RpnonfuI every hour or two. Tliis will exert a slight stimulating action on the brouchial tubes. 62. Take— Dilute sulphuric acid ■;* ^ drachm. Ipecacuanha S'*® i >’ Tincture of digihilis 5'‘“® drachms. I'yrup of red jwppies ?ii 2 „ AVater ^vss 5J ounces. Mix. Give one table-spoonful every hour or two. As soon as this relieves the heart’s action and lessens the fever, withdraw the tincture of digitalis, and substitute paregoric, as in the former prewaaptions. Scarlet-fever is the only ai-terial, or inflammatory lUkaline fever incident to infants and children, in tyliich the acids and anodynes aro employed. Almost all their other fevers ftro
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