Opera minora : a collection of essays, articles, lectures and addresses from 1866 to 1882 inclusive / by Edward C. Seguin.
- Edward Constant Seguin
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Opera minora : a collection of essays, articles, lectures and addresses from 1866 to 1882 inclusive / by Edward C. Seguin. 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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![Bartholow, R., a Treatise on the Practice of Medicine for the Use of Students and Practitioners, 3d edition, 1883, p. 568, in speaking of tlie treat- ment of intra-cranial tumors, says: There are two remedies which ought always to be used—iodide of potassium and ergot ; for altliougli only syphil- itic and possibly aneurismal tumors are remediable, the case under treatment may be one of them. Edes, Robert T., Therapeutic Hand-book of tlie United States Pharmaco- poeia, etc., 1883, p. 255, says : The curability of any disease by iodide of po- tassium, however, does not warrant a diagnosis of syphilis. Page 256: It should be given freely in all cases of cerebral tumors, and often in meningitis. Flint, Austin, A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, etc., 5th edition, 1881, p. 726, when speaking of the treatment of tumors within the cranium, says: It is, however, claimed, that certain remedies, namely, the iodide of potassium, the bichloride of mercury, and arsenic do have such an influence in such cases (meaning non-syphilitic growths). Hamilton, AllanMcLane, Nervous Diseases; their Description and Treat- ment, 1878, p. 202, under the treatment of tumors of the brain, says: It has been my practice in every case to place the patient upon an anti-syphilitic course of treatment. Hammond, William A., A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System, 7th edition, 188-1, p. 324, under the head of treatment of tumors of the brain, says: So far, however, as other* tumors of the brain are concerned, there is no treatment calculated to cure the patient, unless a syphilitic taint can ha ascertained to exist.. It is well, however, even when there are no positive indications of the presence of such a diathesis, to act upon the presumption that it does exist, and to administer mercury in some form with the iodide of potassium. Obernier, P., in Ziemssen's Cyclopaedia of the Practice of Medicine, vol. xii.. Diseases of the Brain and its Membranes, when giving the treatment of tumors of the brain and its membranes, p. 288, says: Atrialofitf should not be neglected. Ross, James, A Treatise on the Diseases of the Nervous System, 1881, vol. ii., p. 567, when giving the treatment of focal diseases of the brain, says: With the view of promoting absorption of the morbid growth, iodide of potassium has been administered in large doses and with apparent benefit. Stillé and Maisch, The National Dispensatory, 2d edition, 1879, p. 1161, under the subject of potassium iodide, say: In many cases oi jjaralysis, due, probably, to pressure upon a motor centre, or upon a nervous trunk, produced by syphilitic or other swellings, the medicine is often singularly efficient and should never be omitted from the treatment. WiLKS, Samuel, Lectures on Diseases of the Nervous System, 1878, p. 461, in general remarks on remedies, says: In cases of epilepsy and many obscure nervous affections, I usually commence with this class of remedies, X knowing that a curable disease has sometimes ended fatally because they have been overlooked.—[R. W. A.] * Meaning other than aneurismal. f Meaning iodide of potassium. % Meaning iodide of potassium and perchloride of mercury. 38](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21077435_0607.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
