Volume 1

Napheys' Modern therapeutics, medical and surgical : including the diseases of women and children a compendium of recent formulae and therapeutical directions from the practice of eminent contemporary physicians, American and foreign / [edited by Allen J. Smith and J. Aubrey Davis].

  • Napheys, George H. (George Henry), 1842-1876
Date:
1892-1893
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Credit: Napheys' Modern therapeutics, medical and surgical : including the diseases of women and children a compendium of recent formulae and therapeutical directions from the practice of eminent contemporary physicians, American and foreign / [edited by Allen J. Smith and J. Aubrey Davis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    After cleansing the bowels, he orders: 1436. ]J. Tinct. opii camph., f. 5'ij Bismuthi subnit., Pepsinee sacch., aa 3i Aquae destil., f. 5j iiss. M. S.—One teaspoonful every three or four hours to a child one year old. The bottle should be well shaken. ROSSBACH employs naphthaline in the following manner in this condition : M37- R- Naphthaline, gr. x Boiling water, § iv Decoction of marshmallow, Oj. This is to be used as an injection at a temperature of ioo° F. CONSTIPATION. A. JACOBI, M. D. In all forms of constipation, says this distinguished authority, (Arc. Ped., September, 1889), few medicaments ought to be used. As there is so often an excess of acid in the gastric and even intestinal contents, calcined magnesia finds its twofold indication. It may be given in many small doses, or a single large one, which need not exceed five or ten grains a day. Doses of a grain or two grains may be continued for many days, and repeated from three to six times daily. Rhubarb acts well, when combined with it, for the purpose of overcoming protracted costiveness. Rectal injections may be given from the common fountain syringe, the nozzle of which must be introduced beyond the two sphincters. To facilitate the down- ward movement of the fsecal masses and to stimulate peristalsis, fric- tion and kneading, (massage,) may be resorted to ; kneading must be performed with the palm of the hand gently and persistently; fric- tion is best commenced in the right side, and continued over the epigastrium and down the left side in the course of the colon. Elec- tricity has been used successfully when constipation is the result of insufficient peristalsis. As an occasional purgative, for the purpose of relieving the intes- tinal tract of indigestible and injurious masses, castor oil is probably the best and mildest; a few grains of calomel will act both as a pur-