Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier.
- François-Vincent Raspail
- Date:
- 1846
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Annual diary of health, or, Family physician & druggist : containing the necessary theoretical and practical manner of preparing medicines and preserving or curing yourself of disease, at small cost and with promptitude, of all curable evils, and of giving relief to those who labor under chronic or incurable diseases / by F.V. Raspail ; translated from the Paris edition of 1846 by A. Fortier. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![178. Precautions to be taken in the preparation and pre- servation of anodyne water.—Care must be taken to keep the flask of ammoniac at a distance of your body, when you open and pour from it. Bottles of anodyne water must always be kept well corked. Bear in mind to keep the bottle in a cool place and never let it remain during the night near a chimney fire or heated stove ; heat might start the cork and ammoniac would escape in the room. Anodyne water must not be breathed unless indicated in the treat- ment. 179. Theoretical explanations of the action of anodyne water on the animal system.—When you witness for the first time the quick and sure effects of anodyne^ater, the action of this medicine appears miraculous. Having aWieart to erase from the study of science the word miraculous which has always been used by quacks as a draft on ignorance, we shall give such a detailed and clear explanation of the healing phenomenons obtained by the use of this anodyne water, that every body will be enabled, not merely to understand the reasons which induce us to apply it in certain given cases, but also knowingly, to modify its application, according to cir- cumstances. • 180. The blood, this essential vital liquid which is distributed in our divers organs by circulation, loses its organising properties when too liquid or too solid, that is to say whenever the albumen which forms its basis is more or less deprived or superabundant of that menstruation which keeps it partly in dissolution. Water with the addition of certain salts, among which hydroclorate of ammo- niac [ammoniac salt] are the agents which play the most important part in menstruation. 181. The introduction of an acid, essential oil, carbonate of hy- drogen or alcohol (rectified spirits) in the blood vessels, coagulates the albumen of blood as well as a high degree of heat coagulates the white of an egg. Excessive heat would produce the same effect, in extracting by evaporation the watery substance of the blood. 182. Coagulated albumen, in a circulating vessel, would necessar- ily create an obstacle which would arrest the circulation as effec- tually as a cork in a cylinder. If the coagulated matter does not entirely obstruct the passage, circulation will only be lessened at this spot until the power of the circulating liquid triumphs over this ob- stacle by violently pushing it elsewhere ; and from this moment the si>eed of the blood will be proportionate to the delay it encounters on its passuge. 183. lithe matter entirely obstructs the passage, there will be an augmentation before and a vacuum after; a superfluous quantity before and a penury after: a double suffering by the more or less, by excess and by privation, on both sides of this diaphragm. 181. If, instead of a single obstruction, we suppose there are two, at any distance from one another, hermetically obstruing the vessels on both sides, the blood wich remain between these two stop-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0041.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
