First principles of medicine / By Archibald Billing.

  • Archibald Billing
Date:
1831
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Credit: First principles of medicine / By Archibald Billing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A7 beware of attributing to the remedies, the changes of pulse which depend on the progress of the disease. A stimulant increases the action of the heart and con- sequently for a time sending more arterial blood to the hilarity, (if there be no latent disease there) but in too A direct sedative diminishes the action of the heart and nervous system, in excess, instead of hilarity pro- ducing anxiety, depression and despondency, nay more, allaying action in the nervous system, so that it cannot direct the muscles, the patient becomes giddy and: stag- gers, and even the retina becomes so weak as not to see distinctly, so that a person may reel or see double with- blood. It is well for the student to be early aware that though the remedy which would relieve one would not afford relief to the other, for instance the coma of children which proceeds from inanition, and which might be mistaken for a plethoric state of the internal scribed by Goocu, and the disease called DELIRIUM TREMENS has many symptoms in common with those tives, but which itself requires stimulants either alone Stimulants produce stupor or confusion of ideas by overpowering the brain with arterial blood, from the increased action of the heart which they occasion, for