A compend of the practice of medicine : especially adapted for the use of medical students / by Danl. E. Hughes.

  • Hughes, Daniel E., 1851-1902
Date:
1883
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Credit: A compend of the practice of medicine : especially adapted for the use of medical students / by Danl. E. Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Treatment. Absolute rest in bed. Milk diet, or if much depression, also weak animal broth and oysters. Drink freely of water, but neither tea, coffee nor stimulants. Counter-irritation over kidneys by dry or wet cups, or poultices of digitalis. Free purgation by pulv. jalapce comp., gj, in water, before breakfast. Diaphoresis by warm baths, or an infusion of jaborandi leaves (3 ij to aqua Oj), wineglassful every four hours, or vinum ipecacuanhoe, gtt. j-ij, every half hour. Diuresis, by— R . Potass, acetat gr. x-xx Infus. digital f^ij Infus. juniperi f^ij. M. Every four hours. For urcemic convulsions, morphia, gr. ]/2, hypodermatically, repeated if necessary; venesection, or inhalation of chloroform, ox chloral hydrat., or potassii bromid., per rectum, and rapid and free purgation by oleum tiglii or elaterium ; also acting on skin by warm baths or pilocarpin, gr. hypodermatically. As soon as the blood disappears from the urine, a course of ferrum, in the shape of Basham's mixture, until albumen disappears and health is restored. The following is the formula of Basham’s mixture: R. Liq. ammon. acetat. Acid acetic Tinct. ferri chlor.... Alcoholis Syrup Aquae Sig.—Dose fgj fgj. M. CHRONIC PARENCHYMATOUS NEPHRITIS. Synonyms. Chronic Bright’s disease; chronic tubal nephritis; chronic albuminuria; large white kidney. Definition. A chronic inflammation of the cortical and tubular tissues of the kidneys; characterized by albuminous urine, dropsy, increasing ansemia, with attacks of urcemia. Causes. Occasionally follows the acute form; syphilis; chronic mala- ria ; chronic alcoholism; chronic mercurialism; lead poisoning; pro- tracted suppuration. It is a disease of the young, rarely occurring after forty. Pathological Anatomy. A large white or yellowish-white, smooth kidney, often twice normal size. The capsule is nowhere adherent to th
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