Practical observations on the treatment and cure of several varieties of pulmonary consumption : and on the effects of the vapour of boiling tar in that disease.
- Alexander Crichton
- Date:
- 1823
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the treatment and cure of several varieties of pulmonary consumption : and on the effects of the vapour of boiling tar in that disease. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Mossman's opinions concerning digitalis are more im- partial and correct than those of Beddoes ; and it is my opi- nion that if Dr. Mossman had not confined many of his pa- tients too rigidly to a very low vegetable diet, he would have been more successful; for where any good is to be done in tubercular phthisis, whether acute or chronic, the scrophu- lous constitution of the patient must never be lost sight of. When the tubercular inflammation is extensive, and occu- pies the pleura, forming what might properly be called the scrophulous or tubercular pleurisy, and when any part of that membrane has produced an effusion of pus and serum between the ribs and lungs, the digitalis never does good, and generally produces indescribable anxiety by its paralysing powers. 12 Succi limonum, ^ss. Potassse carbonat. q. s. ad saturandum. Decoct, sarsaparillae, ^ss.—Jj. Tinct. digitalis purp. min. x—xxx. Mucilag. acaciae, 5j. ft. haustus 6ta quaque hor& sumendus.—In acute tubercular phthisis. 13. ]^ Ext. conii, 5ss. papaveris, 5j. Antimon. tartariz. gr. v. Confect. rosae, q. % ft. massa, in pilulas, No. xxx dividenda. Dose.—One or two to be taken three or four times a day, according to circumstances.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2151298x_0296.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
