A treatise on the scrofulous disease / by C.G. Hufeland ; translated from the French of M. Bousquet by Charles D. Meigs.
- Christoph Wilhelm Hufeland
- Date:
- 1829
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the scrofulous disease / by C.G. Hufeland ; translated from the French of M. Bousquet by Charles D. Meigs. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![viscera. The most boasted medicines could not pre- vent the headach from becoming continued, nor from changing into a real lethargy. I prescribed a scruple of hedge hyssop in powder every morning, a saline re- solutive powder at noon and at night, and from time to time, a pinch of powdered asarum, sugar and soap, mixed like snuff. In a short time the head became free, the cold ceased, and all the scrofulous symptoms dis- appeared. It is more important than is commonly thought, in obstinate scrofulous swellings, to give, once in awhile, a drastic purgative. For this purpose 1 often employ the following pills—Take resin of jalap, pan- chymagogue extract of Crollius, sweet mercury, of each one scruple. For ninety pills; the number for a dose must be suited to the patient's age. S. Antimony. Antimony produces extraordinary effects on the hu- man body. It irritates in a peculiar manner the sto- mach and bowels, as well as the lymphatic and glandu- lar systems; and it is more owing to the specific nature of its action than to its intenseness, that it is able to facilitate the resolution of engorgements, and re-estab- lish and correct the secretions by restoring the secre- tory organs to a natural state. To produce these effects it is not necessary that the antimony should excite the sensible appearances of re- action; experience has proved that the effects are the same when it is given in very small doses, and to indi- viduals whose stomachs are very little irritable. ]. Antimony fulfils all the indications of scrofula ex- cept that of restoring to the constitution the tone it has lost. It destroys the irritation of the lymphatic system, resolves engorgements, corrects faults of the secretions, favours the resorption of effused fluids, &c.; in a word, K2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21131077_0113.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
