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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    •shivering it will be well to procure medical aid if possible. If, from the experience of previous attacks, the disease is known to be ague, five or ten grains of Sul- phate of Quinine may be taken in water every hour or two until the cold stage ceases, and afterwards, two grains .every four hours for three days, unless another fit occurs, when the five-grain doses may be resumed. Should a shivering fit, &c., be the result of a known -chill the case must be treated as one of catarrh. [See COLD.] In the hot stage care must be taken not to chill the body too suddenly: an effervescing draught may be taken (Prescription XV.) In the sweating stage, dry rubbing with a soft towel will afford much relief. ALCOHOLIC CRAVING: This craving for alcohol may be present during the first few days after a person has commenced to abstain totally from all beverages which contain it. Or it may occur as a sort of almost irresistible impulse in certain cases at an indefinite time afterwards, constituting the morbid state known as dipsomania. The craving in the first class of cases is largely dependent on a diseased •condition of the lining membrane of the stomach, which has been produced by the irritation of the alcoholic liquors. Very often food has not been taken for some .days, and the want of it causes a sense of great prostra- tion. It is essential, therefore, that nourishing and