The London practice of midwifery : including the most important diseases of women and children. Chiefly designed for the use of students and early practitioners / by Geo. Jewel, M.D.

  • Jewel, George, active approximately 1833.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The London practice of midwifery : including the most important diseases of women and children. Chiefly designed for the use of students and early practitioners / by Geo. Jewel, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    ation. The warm batli is a most excellent addition to this plan of treatment: occasional emetics of jpulv. ipecac, vin. ipecac, or acet. scillce, are to be resorted to, which, by the action of vomiting, assist in dislodging portions of the membrane lining the trachea. [The Editor recommends emetics with great confidence, particularly when a child has had repeated attacks of the disease, or when it assumes the character of that species termed spasmodic; but, instead of waiting until the vessels have relieved themselves by an ex- udation, they should be given at the commencement of the disease.] The food should consist of barley- water, gruel, and light farinaceous substances, and be as little stimulating as possible. Large and quickly-repeated doses of calomel have been given to excite a change of secretion in the affected part, and determine to the salivary glands: this treatment will be often beneficial, but should never preclude the free use of early and repeated bleeding, from which most relief is certainly to be expected in this distressing complaint. When the violence of the fever has abated, the system suffers under the effects of debility; a more nourishing diet, as beef-tea, mutton or veal broth, is to be allowed ; and the decoction of bark, or any light tonic, with a small quantity of sod. sub- carb. will be proper. Sect. XII. Marasmus. We have before stated, that the infantile fever and abdomen tumidum may terminate in marasmus, which is a disease in which there is a peculiar loss of tone and energy of the system, and generally an enlarge-
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