Practical points in the management of some of the diseases of children / by I.N. Love.

Date:
1891
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    I am already on record as favoring the use of aeet- anilid, in a paper read before the American Medical Association, at Newport, in June, 1889. I have not changed my views regarding the drug. To a child I administer a dose ranging from one to five grains, according to the age, using the following formula: 5 Acetanilid, dram. Vin Tokay (Calvico), ]4 ounce. Pepsin Cordial (P., D. & Co.), 13^ ounces. M. Sig.: One to two teaspoonsful, every two to four hours according to age and intensity of fever. I prefer in the use of this drug, as in the use of all other agents for reducing temperature, to give an average dose and maintain the effect secured by a repetition of dose. I am not in favor of large antipyretic doses. Where too great a reduction is produced the reac- tion is all the greater and the depression is objection- able. As will be obsej-ved in the formula as given, I • nearly always accompany the antipyretics with a small amount of alcoholic stimulation in order to overcome any possible depression. Some Avriters use analgesin in place of acetanilid. I am inclined to believe that analgesin is more depressing and that there is greater danger to the heart. I have had most excellent results in a small num-