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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![against alcaline and ammoniacal vapours, use gargles lightly tinctured with camphorated vinegar (246); against the effect of irritating dust, nothing will relieve so promptlv as frequent gargles of common salt water (248 5°). The use of camphor cigarrettes is sufficient to dislodge from this point intestinal worms, the cause of a variety of such diseases. To cigarrettes is added salt water gargles and the application of a compress soaked either in anodyne water [169] or camphorated alcohol (139) placed round the neck. The usual medicines prescribed under the head of intestinal worms, are to be taken internally. Suckling see child bed. Amputations see wounds. Tonsils see glands. Aneurism see heart. 267. White swellings of grown persons, sore mouth of young children. Causes.—Eruption of small purulent pimples on the sides of the mouth, brought on by the contact of a virus or pricklings of micros- copic intestinal worms. Effects.—These small pimples, by their augmentation, finish by inconveniencing the movements of the tongue, of deglutition or troub- bling the functions of salivation and by creating a fcetid and repulsive breath. Treatment.—Adopt the complete hyegenic regimen [262] use frequent gargles of salt water [248 5 ° ] and camphorated alcohol [1433 ° ]well mixed with water, alternately. When the cause is produ- ced by a virus of a suspicious nature, an additional treatment must be resorted to which we will describe under the hea'd of venereal dis- eases [321]. The camphorated and aromatic regimen [262] to which the nurse of a child affected with white swellings is submitted, generally cures the child. When young children will not take camphor [122] and gargarise their mouth, place the camphorated cio-arette [131] in their mouth, and from time to time press their lips together in order that the air they breathe passes through the cigarette. 268. Apoplexy. Causes.—The blood, either violently attracted or repelled by whatever cause, in the vessels which surround the brain, becomes congealed and circulation is arrested ; the substance of the brain, severely compressed by these congestions exercises no longer those functions which are the principle of life; the teguments of the blood vessels, are often rent asunder by their efforts and life ebbs away, because the organ which sustained it suddenly becomes para- lised or disorganised. Effects.—The patient is suddently struck down without move- ment or sense: dreadful appoplexy is when pulsation ceases and the bodv becomes completely insensible. Treatment.—Protect the eyes with a thick band tied around the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0063.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
