An index of diseases and their treatment / by Thomas Hawkes Tanner.

  • Thomas Hawkes Tanner
Date:
1891
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    and lime water, brandy. In diarrhoea of young children, milk sometimes must be given up entirely, or wet nurse, goat, or ass substituted for the cow. No solid food. Milk boiled, or not. Mucilaginous drinks. Mucilage of gum Arabic. Tapioca, sago, or milk arrowroot. Saccharated solution of lime and milk, 14. Milk and soda water or lime water. Weak broths. Later, custard or rice puddings. White fish. Pepsine, 420. Port wine. Brandy and cold water. Ice. Linseed poultices. Turpentine stupes. Wearing a flannel belt or bandage round abdomen. Avoidance of damp) and cold. Remedies sometimes used .-—Nitrate of silver. Chloride of silver. Sulphate of copper. Ammonio-sulphate of copper. Tannate of bismuth. Alum. Cinnamon. Oxide of zinc. Iron-alum. Tinc- ture of perchloride of iron. Acetate of lead. Ergot of rye. Dilute sulphuric acid. Blisters. Ice to spine, &c. Infantile diarrhoea :—Often attended with great danger. In early stage, castor oil, or calomel, or grey powder with rhubarb and soda, to remove offending matters. Later, minute doses of laudanum with dill water or bismuth. No milk or other food to be given for twelve or twenty-four hours, but water, toast water, sweetened barley water, or rice water. This alone often sufficient with warmth. Later whey; raw meat juice (2), or whites of four- eggs in a pint of iced water with soda bicarb. 5j. DIPHTHERIA.—From Aupdepa, a skin or membrane. Synon. Angina Maligna; Ci/nanche Membranucea; Putrid /Sore Throat; Malignant Quinsy.—An epidemic and contagious sore throat of; great severity, due to toxaemia ; attended with much prostration, and characterized by exudation of false membranes on tonsils and' adjacent structures.—When followed by recovery ; it often leaves an altered state of voice, and may be followed by partial paralysis of muscles of deglutition, weakness of extremities, impaired, vision, and other secondary nerve affections.—Children more, obnoxious to this specific blood disease than adults. Most common amongst poor, or such as reside in damp situations and] badly drained houses. It may be conveyed in atmosphere, by clothes, milk, water, &c. Symptoms. May commence gradually with feelings of de- pression and muscular debility, headache, nausea, slight diarrhoea, chilliness, drowsiness, and sense of stiffness about neck ; oe sometimes with high fever, quick pulse, flushed face, and hot skin. Then, tonsils get inflamed and swollen ; swelling and tenderness of glands about angles of lower jaw. Inflammatory action spreads to velum, uvula, posterior part of pharynx. Perhaps difficult deglutition. The characteristic feature is effu- sion of a plastic fibrinous material. This may first appear in nasal fossa?, or on soft palate, on one tonsil, or on back of pharynx, most frequently on tonsils, from which it spreads to pillows of fauces, soft palate, &c. Exudation looks like ash- 12 on npii itH k I u