The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body. Including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D.

  • Elliot, John, 1747-1787.
Date:
1791
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Credit: The medical pocket-book : containing a short but plain account of the symptoms, causes, and methods of cure, of the diseases incident to the human body. Including such as require surgical treatment : together with the virtues and doses of medicinal compositions and simples ; extracted from the best authors, and digested into alphabetical order / by John Elliot, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treatment. Bark, and other tonics ; ner- vous antiipufmodics, as caftor, valerian, aflafoetida, &c. attenuants, as volatile ialts and fpirits ; bitters and chalybeates if no fever ; emetics, aperients, opiates, ifiues, and bliftcrs difcretionally ; the cold bath and chalybeate waters, food light and eafy of digeftion, cheerful company, and gentle exercife. HYSTERIA In women, are fimiiar to the hypochondriacs in men, but ufually more violent, and attended with convulfive fits ; which ufually come on with oppreffion at the bread, difficult breathing, a fei^e of fomething rifing in the throat, which fcems to threaten fuffocation ; convulfive motions ; froth- ing at the mouth; laughing, and fometimes crying. May be known from a mere fyncope by the pulfe and breathing continuing, whereas in a fyncope they are not perceptible ; it alfo comes on gradually, but a fyncope more fuddenly ; in that, the fit is of fhort continuance, in this, ufually much longer ; with a colour in the face, which is not the cafe in a fyncope. Treatment of the diforder itfelf, as in the hypochondriaca. In the fit volatile fcetids, finged feathers, &c. may be applied to the noftrils ; and cold water and volatile foetids given. The feet and legs may be placed in warm water ; the pure cold air (hould be freely admitted ; cold water may be fprinkled on the face and breaft ; and if a plethora be indicated, bleed s otherwife cau- tiously