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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    INFANTILE PARALYSIS. ALLEN M'LANE HAMILTON, M. D., NEW YORK. The most active and useful agent in the therapeusis of this dis- ease, is electricity, either as galvanism or faradism, applied to the muscles. As, however, there is a central lesion, it is advisable to begin an energetic course of bromides and ergot (gtt. v of the fluid extract), with the actual cautery, before the atrophic condition com- mences. Strychnia is also an efficient agent. Young children may- commence with gr. Tjhj, which may slowly be increased. A pala- table form is: HAMMOND'S SOLUTION. 1469. ]J. Strychnise sulphatis, gr. j Quinias sulphatis, Ferri pyrophosphates, aa 5j Acidi phosphoric! diluti, Syrupi zingiberis, aa f. § ij. M. | Sixteen drops contain gr. j|q of strychnia. Cod-liver oil, sea-air, good food and tonics are all important. The paralyzed muscles should be treated by massage, heat and cold, andf the faradic and galvanic currents. Some writers speak highly of JOUNOD'S Boot, the paralyzed limb being placed in the boot and the air exhausted. Much may be done to prevent the contractions and deformities which accompany old cases of this disease, by the daily use of pass- ive exercises and shampooing; recovery of power is often con- tributed to by the use of galvanism. The mild continuous current is found to be especially useful in the class of flaccid muscles, whilst no good is ever done by galvanism in the class of rigid muscles. Dr. WEST gives in this disease nux vomica, gr. y& to a child three years old, increasing the dose till it reaches ^ of a grain, thrice daily. The use of ergot has also been advocated, gtt. v of the fluid ex- tract thrice daily, to a child two years old. The etiological treatment has reference to dentition, worms, con- stipation, anaemia, prseputial irritation, etc. DR. ARMAND SEMPLE, OF LONDON. Infantile paralysis proper, sometimes called infantile spinal para- lysis, occurs in young children, and its exact nature, even now, is not