Volume 1

A manual of medical treatment or clinical therapeutics / by I. Burney Yeo.

  • Isaac Burney Yeo
Date:
1894
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    and method may be enforced and carried out at home with the frank and obedient co-operation of the patient. After a time, or when it is clear that a decided aperient action is not needed, but the object is simply to cleanse the mucous membrane of the stomach of the morbid, viscid, catarrhal mucus with which it is covered, then the simple alkaline sodium bicarbonate waters such as warm Vichy, Ems, or Vals water, or simple hot water containing 2 or 3 grains each of sodium bicarbonate and of common salt to the ounce, may be vised instead of the Carlsbad water. Two or three tumblerfuls should be drunk in the morning fasting, and no food should be taken till an hour after the last glass. The results from this treatment, says Niemeyer, are the most brilliant that are ever attained in medicine. In some chronic, obstinate cases in neurotic, sen- sitive subjects, in which the symptoms are not very severe, but rather annoying and troublesome from their persistence, the gaseous chloride of sodium waters of Kissingen often prove most efficacious, and appear to agi-ee better than the stronger aperient waters. Ewald considers the chloride of sodium waters indicated in the cases of chronic gastric catarrh with depressed glandular secretion. If we use a simple bicarbonate of soda water, it will often be an advantage, especially in gouty subjects, to order a tumblerful as hot as can be drunk comfortably, to be taken half an hour or an hour before lunch and dinner and at bed-time ; the object being to wash away all residual mucus or other substances remaining from the previous meal before another is taken, and also to neutralise any excess of acid which may remain in the stomach, and to stimulate a healthy secretion of gastric juice. Other measures may at the same time be taken to check or arrest fermentive action in the stomach; two of the best remedies for this purpose are creasote and thymol, given in pills immediately after food. The latter may be prescribed in this form :—