The management and medical treatment of children in India / by Edward A. Birch.

  • Birch, Edward A. (Edward Alfred), 1840-1912.
Date:
1886
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Credit: The management and medical treatment of children in India / by Edward A. Birch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inunction of oil; or the mustard bath when deaUng ch.xxxvin. with the exhaustion of older children. Abdominal griping and tenderness will be greatly Mustard relieved by poultices to which mustard has been added, or by turpentine fomentations. If the case be seen sufficiently early the stools will Medicines, possess all the characteristics of those of the curdy H seen early.. diarrhoea of irritation (p. 280); and the symptoms, too, will be much the same, except that they are of a chronic nature. We then commence treatment as before, with Gregory’s powder (50), and a short course of the red mixture (49), followed by bismuth and opium (3.1) for a few days only. As improvement takes place, the latter medicine may be omitted and Bael fruit (33) used instead. Should, however, the looseness, now reduced to simple diarrhoea, still continue, we must resort to pure astringents (29). If, on the other hand, the motions become scanty, ysTion signs of shreddy, of very offensive odour, and contain blood, we must avoid astringents, and use the castor oil emulsion (51) with aromatics, such as powdered cinnamon and caraway, persistently until the symptoms yield : an astringent not being substituted until the tongue has become clean, and the motions reduced to the nature of those of a simple diarrhoea. The oxide of zinc (34) often answers admirably, sometimes even better than the emulsion, in these circumstances. Astringents should be avoided so long as the temperature of the body is high. When the motions are large, fermented and putty- Fermented like, a bismuth (5 grains) and sahcin (2 grains) powder after every meal, will be found most useful; while, at
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