The medical guide : containing plain and simple directions for the treatment of the more common diseases / By an experienced physician.

Date:
1850
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    FLUX (Dysentert,). Causes State of the atmosphere, eating unripe fruits and vegetables, exposure to cold and damp, un- wholesome food, &e. Symptoms Pain in the bowels, accompanied with griping 5 pressing pain at stool, which consists princi- pally of mucons tinged with blood. Treatment At the commencement of the attack, an emetic of 15 grains ipecacuan, to 1 grain of tartar emetic, and drinking plentifully of linseed tea, follow- ing up this with 1 ounce of castor oil, with from 20 to 30 drops of laudanum, and keeping warm in bed for a day or two, will often check the disease in the bud. Observations. —If it progress, use clysters of starch and laudanum after every inclination to stool, & A teaspoonful of laudanum may be added to the injection in the case of an adult, 5 to 16 drops to an infant. Dysentery is a very troublesome disease, and when once established is very intractable, leaving the subject after recovery in a weak languid state, and liable to a relapse on any impropriety on his part. Hence the necessity of attention to the first symptoms. Roll of flannel worn round the bowels is a good precautionary measure, and the utmost attention to diet, which ought to bo princi- giddiness. Causes Fullness of blood in the head, flatulence, ^Symptoms.— Objects appear whirling round: un- steady trait, and tendency to fall. , . ,, Treatment If from fulness of blood.leeches tothe temples; ceding purgatives, as salts. &c ; diet. If from flatulence, a teaspoonful of tincture ot valerian, or 10 drops of hartshorn and water. ‘ Observations—The habits of the patient, whether intemperate in eating and drinking, or otherwise, also whether he be short-necked, of a florid c°mpl««on, o the reverse, ought to be taken into account; other wise danger may be incurred in adopting active treat men without the advice of medical men, who oug consulted at the commencement.