Lectures on materia medica / by Carroll Dunham.

  • Carroll Dunham
Date:
1878
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Credit: Lectures on materia medica / by Carroll Dunham. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    in the night prevents sleep. (Arsenic after mid- night) Fever. Coldness and chilliness at night, followed by heat. Great disposition to sweat, which occurs early in the morning, and is often sour. Dr. Guernsey gives the following indications for intermittent: Chill, with a marked degree of thirst. No thirst, or but slight during the fever, but the patient wishes to be fanned constantly, as if to compensate for the lack of thirst. Before the chill, often throbbing headache. During the chill, often much languor and apparent losing of strength. General Characteristics are depression, not pre- ceded by erethism or excitement. [Carbo vegetabilis (wood charcoal) was not used in medicine until the discovery of its power to absorb gases and hold them confined in its pores, to an extent several hundred times exceeding its own volume, suggested its use, both internally and externally, in cases of decomposition, whether of food within the intestine, or of tissues and excretions of ulcerating surfaces on the intestine or the integument, evolving offensive gases. In such cases charcoal was given in large doses, or applied to the ulcerating surfaces. We owe our knowledge of its specific, pathogenetic and therapeutic properties to Hahnemann and his pupils, who proved it.]