The non-alcoholic home treatment of disease / by J. James Ridge.

  • Ridge, J. J. (John James), 1847-1908
Date:
[1880?]
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Credit: The non-alcoholic home treatment of disease / by J. James Ridge. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and water, may be taken a little while before food. If this does not succeed, or if the acidity is only an occa- sional occurrence, and comes on two or three hours after a meal, a good pinch of Bicarbonate of Soda or Magnesia is a good remedy ; or one or two of Wyeth’s compressed tablets of soda mint may be taken; or a teaspoonful of Dinneford’s fluid magnesia, or the Prescriptions I., IX. or X. [See Appendix and DYSPEPSIA.] AGUE : The symptoms of an ordinary attack occur in three stages: (i) The cold stage, in which the blood vessels of the skin are contracted: (2) the hot stage, in which the blood vessels are relaxed and gorged with blood : (3) the sweating stage, in which the congested vessels are relieved by perspiration. The treatment will differ according to the stage of the attack. In the cold stage the object is to procure relax- ation of the blood vessels and determination of the blood to the skin. To this end apply hot flannels to the spine, or put a piece of flannel over it, and iron with a hot flat- iron. Place the feet and hands in hot water; wrap up warmly before a fire. Take some hot drink, such as hot milk and water, or hot gruel, &c. Many serious fevers and inflammations come on in ft very similar way to the cold stage of ague, with shivering, and a sensation of cold water running down the back, &c. Ague is very uncommon now in nearly all parts of this country; therefore, in the event of such an attack of