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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    anaesthesia. If dentition is the cause, and the gums are tense, they should be freely lanced. If irritation of the bowels is present, they should be cleared by appropriate remedies. Worms should always be suspected, and remedies suitable for their removal should be given. If the child cannot swallow, an enema may be given in the intervals of the convulsions; to ward off the attacks, he regards the bromides of potassium and ammonium as useful. If there is sleep- lessness, a few grains of hydrate of chloral often do good. When the convulsions have ceased, the proper remedies are cod-liver oil and iron preparations, such as vinum ferri and syrupus ferri hypo- phosphitis. DR. C. POLLOCK, OF INDIANA. This author relates in the Medical and Surgical Reporter, 1883, the case of a healthy baby aged five months, in whom very severe con- vulsions were caused by a narrow prepuce which enclosed a large amount of smegma, which had irritated the glans penis and caused the convulsions by reflex action. This is a'cause that is often over- looked by both physicians and parents, and yet it is a not infrequent] cause of infantile convulsions that are overlooked or attributed to some other cause. Dr. POLLOCK slit up the prepuce and removed! the smegma, and as soon as the cut surfaces healed, the convulsions] ceased. PROFESSOR DUJARDIN-BEAUMETZ, OF PARIS, Thus concludes a lecture in the N. Y. Medical Journal, 1883: In eclamptic convulsions, or in those which have for their point of de- parture, reflex action, the best mode of treatment consists in the internal administration of bromide of potassium, or chloral, or in inhalations of chloroform or ether. All medicaments which anae-' miate the brain seem to do good in these cases ; it is from this con- sideration that TROUSSEAU proposed compression of the carotids. He warns us to be chary in the use of revulsives—such as sinapisms and blisters—in these cases; for severe cutaneous gangrenes, more difficult to cure than the convulsions themselves, have more than once been produced by the prolonged action of even a mustard cataplasm, and this in consequence of the insensibility which results from the fit. DRS. MEIGS AND PEPPER, OF PHILADELPHIA. There are some general rules to be followed in the treatment of