The new handbook of dosimetric therapeutics, or, The treatment of diseases by simple remedies : including symptomatology, thermometry and uroscopy, with synoptical tables epitomising important clinical cases : a work particularly designed for practitioners / by Ad. Burggraeve ; tr. from the French, and ed. by Henry Arthur Allbutt.
- Adolphe Burggraeve
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The new handbook of dosimetric therapeutics, or, The treatment of diseases by simple remedies : including symptomatology, thermometry and uroscopy, with synoptical tables epitomising important clinical cases : a work particularly designed for practitioners / by Ad. Burggraeve ; tr. from the French, and ed. by Henry Arthur Allbutt. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![-connected. Therefore, this neuralgia presents a character of -extreme gravity. It must be combated in the same manner as the neuralgias in genera], especially by strychnine (sulphate) and hyoscia- inine, a treatment I found successful in a case under my own oare : — A granule of each, ever}' quarter-of-an-hour, until sedation. Thoracic Neuralgias. — These include sternalgia and nostalgia, characterised by lancinating pains, some radiating towards the neck, and others towards the shoulders and inferior members, and accompanied by tumultuous movements of the respiration, with great cardiac anxiety. Hence the term sinf/ina pectoris, which has been given to these neuralgias by some authors, although the word angina should apply more properly to the exudative affections. (Vide Diphtherias.) These neuralgias, being characterised by periods of accession, must be combated by quinine, hyosciamine and strychnine :— A granule of each, together, every quarter-of-an-hour, until sedation. Digitaline and arseniate of iron must then be administered, in -order to completely re-establish the functional equilibrium : — A granule of each, together, three or four times a-day. It must not be forgotten, that in reality, most of these neuralgias are due to an anaemic or a chlora-anaemic condi- tion. Therefore, cyanide of zinc is also indicated in obstinate oases : — A granule : 6 to 10 a-day. Abdominal Neuralgias. — These include : 1. Dia- phragmatic or phrenic neuralgias, with jerking respiration, hiccough, pains radiating towards the neck and ascending along the phrenic or diaphragmatic nerve, towards the shoulder -and arm, involving the pharynx and causing spasmodic move- ments of it, on account of the communication with a branch of the hypoglossal. They must be attacked by hyosciamine, 5](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21044612_0069.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
