Favorite prescriptions of distinguished practitioners, with notes on treatment : comp. from the published writings or unpublished records of Drs. Fordyce Barker, Roberts Bartholow [etc.] ... / By B. W. Palmer.

  • Palmer, B. W. (Benjamin W.)
Date:
1884
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Credit: Favorite prescriptions of distinguished practitioners, with notes on treatment : comp. from the published writings or unpublished records of Drs. Fordyce Barker, Roberts Bartholow [etc.] ... / By B. W. Palmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    to the head. A saline cathartic may be given; and the following prescription: 5. Sodii bromidi, 3 ijss.; Fl. ext. ergot., 3 ijss.; Syr. zingib., fss.; Aq. aurant. flor. q. s. ad 3 iv. M. Sig. 3 ss. every two hours. If the skin be hot and dry, and the pulse full and rapid, give two drops of Fleming's tincture of aconite root every two hours, until the heart's action is sensi- bly diminished. Sometimes also a hot mustard foot- bath will give relief. ■ The passive congestive variety demands a different mode of treatment. It is often found associated with cardiac disease, and most fre- quently where there is predominant dilatation. Hy- pertrophy gives rise to the active variety. Improve the condition of the blood by the use of iron, quinine, bitter tonics, alcoholic stimulants, good food, and stim- ulate the heart's action by the use of the following: IJ. Tinct. digitalis, 3 ii].; Spirit, amm. aromat., 3 vj.; Spirit, lavandulae comp.; Syr. simp. aaq. s. ad § iij. M. Sig. 3 j. every four hours. (*8.) Ancemic Headache.—Cerebral anaemia produces a headache which is often mistaken for the passive cerebral congestive form. It is associated with gen- eral anaemia, nervous exhaustion, and may occur in heart disease, in consequence of enfeebled heart power, such as is met with in enlargement with dila- tation, fatty degeneration, and myocarditis. Improve the general condition of the patient, and stimulate the heart's action as recommended in the passive cerebral congestive variety. Nitrite of amyl will relieve the immediate headache. Let the patient inhale three to five drops of it on a piece of cotton, placed within one