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The study of medicine. Containing all the author's ... improvements / [John Mason Good].

  • John Mason Good
Date:
1829
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    the information is correct; yet,-without a high degree of Gen. VI. skill and circumspection, so potent and rapid a ‘poison see tanets must inevitably become a remedy far worse than the dis- ambulan- ease itself. The remedial or poisonous: property is proba- °™ bly the prussic acid, which this plant is now well known ual prea? to contain; as well as:the blossom of peach-trees, the oil sicacid. of bitter almonds, and other vegetables of the same smell. And hence, for the sake of greater accuracy, it would be better to employ the prussic acid of the chemist in its simpler and more concentrated state. [Laennec has a high opinion of the usefulness of mag- netism, with leeches, blisters:to the forepart. of the chest, the cherry-laurel infusion, digitalis, or the foetid gums; a mild regimen, and the warm or cold bath, according to the season of the year*.] SPECIES II. STERNALGIA CHRONICA. CHRONIC BREAST-PANG. THE PAROXYSMS LESS VIOLENT, BUT OF LONGER CON- TINUANCE: RECURRING FREQUENTLY WITH GREAT PALPITATION OF THE HEART, EXCITED BY SLIGHT, AND OFTEN UNKNOWN CAUSES, AND NOT RELIEVED BY REST. From the observations, which have been thrown out at Gey. VI. -some length in treating of ephialtes and asthma, it is not Oren on to be wondered at that sternalgia should in many habits, often during where it. has once taken a hold, be peculiarly disposed to eek and recur when the body is recumbent, and particularly during vs sleep: nor even that, in some idiosyncrasies, it should, like the two complaints just alluded to, often originate in such a state of body. Palas Assess mae caver at te le a Let ohm naN aL Ro te