Index raisonné to the New materia medica / by J.C. Peters and F.G. Snelling.
- John Charles Peters
- Date:
- [1861]
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Credit: Index raisonné to the New materia medica / by J.C. Peters and F.G. Snelling. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![nosis is grave under any circumstances, and the loss of life under the best treatment is fearfully great. The treatment must be that for in- flammation, not for a simple or aggravated convulsive disorder. Aco- nite, Digitalis, Veratrum-viride, &c, are the important remedies; time is lost in giving Assafoetida, Nux, Belladonna, Ignatia, &c; the tincture of the root of Aconite may be applied over the whole of the head. Ardor Urinae.—Acacia. 5. Ammon.-mur. 295. Ardor urince. is defined as a scalding of the urine, or a sense of heat in the urethra; also a scalding sensation occasioned by the urine in passing over the inflamed mucous membrane of the urethra, or over the neck of the bladder. Diluents and demulcents, such as Gum-Arabic water, Barley water, Flax-seed tea, &c, are given with the view of augmenting the amount of urine and rendering it less acrid. Salines aflect the composition of the urine; of these the Muriate of Ammonia deserves more atten- tion than it has received of late. Among the less frequently used remedies, Sabadilla should be thought of when there is much scald- ing; Ruta and Verat. when there is excessive urging to urinate, with painful burning during micturition. Arthritis.—Benzoic-acid. 15. ]6. Aeon. 128. 130. Ammon-phos. 310. Apoc.-andros. 467. 468. Argent.-nit. 498. (lO, Articularis.—Arg.-nit. 498. The term arthritis is generally confined to gout, but we prefer to treat in this place of the principal inflammatory affections of the joints. In acute synovitis the pain is early and severe; it is constant and gradually increasing in severity ; it ultimately becomes intense ; there is swelling, also gradually on the increase, sometimes becoming great; the skin is red, tense, hot and sensitive; the pain is severest in the interior of the joint, much aggravated by pressure, and altogether in- tolerant of the slightest motion, so that a position is assumed in which the parts affected are most relaxed and pressure removed from the opposed inflamed surfaces ; relief is felt from this posture and it is maintained as much as possible, but the muscles about the joint are liable to spasms, whereby involuntary starlings of the limb occur, especially during the short and uncertain periods of disturbed sleep, and the pains are all much increased by these jerking motions. The system labors under inflammatory fever of a grave kind, which in- creases with the progress of the disorder ; finally, suppuration having occurred there is a marked aggravation of all the symptoms, both constitutional and local, and a succession of rigors usually ushers in the exacerbation; the fever rises higher, and the system is propor- tionally more oppressed ; the swelling becomes larger and more tense ; the pain heat and feeling of tightness are increased, accompanied with a deep-seated throbbing, and each beat of the pulse seems to augment the pain. The superficial swelling becomes more angry ;](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2114719x_0029.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
