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.
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![iust above the eyes, and keep the heail well sprinkled with anodyne water [169] the head being lightly bent backwards. In the mean time surround the neck and wrists with thick compresses soaked in anodyne water [169]; wash the breast and between the two shoulders with the same water ; employ vigorous frictions with your hand greased with camphorated ointment [158]. A* soon as he gives signs of recovery and able to stand up, plunge him with care in the anodyne and alcalino ferruginous bath [107] and continue the frictions when he comes out. If there is no rupture of vessels nor brain hemorrhage, the patient will recover his senses as if by magic in less than a quarter of an hour. The patient must be purged afterwards with a dose of aloes [99], and herb broth [104.] Case cured.—The unfortunate Mrs. Poirier, living at No. 10, rue des Prouvaires, whom I shall mention under the head of cancer, called on me about the latter end of march 1843, and requested my advice on the treatment she had applied to one of her neighbors who had been struck down with apoplexy half an hour before. She had immediately applied compresses, soaked in anodyne water, around the neck ; sprinkled the head copiously and washed the whole body with anodyne water. Having requested the family to continue this treatment, she hastened to Mont-Souris to inquire what remained to be done. I advised her to plunge the patient, when able, in the anodyne and alcalino ferruginous bath [107]; purge him with aloes and to administer a purgative injection. When she returned to the patient, who had been continually sprinkled with anodyne water, she found him well recovered and discoursing of his accident as of a mere ordinary casualty ; a quarter of an hour of this treat- ment had sufficed'to bring back his reason and motion. I have cited in my large work, cases of hemiplegy cured in a few minutes by^this same treatment. My experiments on animals attacked suddenly by a coup de sang have fully tested the power of this treatment and 1 have often as- thonished my visitors by rendering them ^witnesses of quasi-resurrec- tions of animals, who would most certainly have remained dead, but lor the application of my treatment. 1 ° . A hen found dead of a coup dc sang was taken up twenty minutes after the accident. Covered with anodyne water, what was the surprise, when a few minutes afterward., she was found eating with a good appetite. 2°. A small linnet is suddenly struck down by apoplexy, after having been tossed to and fro by a cat; life appeared to be extinguished, I sprinkled him with anodyne water and in two minutes he opened his eyes, shook his wings, rose on his legs and went to feed. He was still living two month.- afterwards. 3 °. I have often applied this medicine to small Chinese fishes :'ound floating in their basin. Scarcely had a fuv, drops of anodvne water heen emptied in the basin than they recovered their usual quickness of movement. >.'. B. We would recommend to place a bottle of anodyne water](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0064.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
