A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent.

  • Livezey, Abraham, 1821-1896
Date:
1853
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Credit: A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Of which one may be given every 2 to 3 hours, alternat- ing with the following mixture, in tea spoonful doses. R. Hydrocyanici Acidi, gtt. viii. Ext. Hyosciami Nig., gr. viii. Aquce, § ii, M. Let the utmost attention be paid to the changing tempera- ture of the patient, forwhatisthe bugbear, inflammation, but a quicker motion of the atoms, and consequently a higher temperature of the part where atomic motion is thus changed ?—and it must be admitted that both may be subdued by cold and sedative remittents. Remission attained, the intermission is to be prolonged and maintain- ed, until the changed direction of the motor and sensor forces, and their normal equilibrium eventuates in the establishment of health. A.t]i. Epilepsy,—Falling Sickness. This disease has been also nosologically designated morbus sputa ; but it is more popularly known as Falling Sickness. The word Epilepsy is derived from the Greek smXajx- /3avw, to seize upon; the disease being marked by a sudJen paroxysmal attack of convulsions, with loss of sensibility, without fever, which passes off by a deep sleep. The patient is at once struck down, as by a sudden blow, and seized with general convulsions. The features are drawn aside, or fixed ; the tongue; which is thrust out of the mouth, is often badly injured, by the lateral grind- ing of the jaws ; in short, the senses are suspended, and the subject paralised. During the fit, a foam, intimately commingled with
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