Medical hints for the hills / by S.O. Bishop.

  • Bishop, S. O.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Medical hints for the hills / by S.O. Bishop. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treatment, Treatment Treatment. but simply arrowroot, to which, in enfeebled cases, a little port wine may be added, milk with lime water, but not soda, as before stated, this being too gaseous. Plain milk puddings, chicken-broth. Brand’s Essence which from their small bulk can be easily taken ; sago and tapioca puddings are good. When the symptoms have improved, boiled chicken pish pash, (chicken stew^ed in rice till it is quite soft), and a little more substanial diet may be substituted. Do not return too quickly to your ordinary diet, or you will have the mischief over again. I must here caution my readers about astringents; it is only natural when diarrhoea commences that one ignorant of the theory of the diseasej should resort to chlorodyne, chalk mixture, and other remedies, which do much harm in cases of this kind of diarrhoea. First remove the cause, and the rest of the treat- ment is easy enough. If the diarrhoea be very excessive and weakening, it can be kept
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