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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![in the boxes of medicines employed to relieve cases of asphyxy, and to commence the treatment by copiously washing the body* with this water. If this agent fails, none other could be more efficacious; there must then exist a brain hemorrhage or the apoplexy must be of too ancient a date. The theory we have given of the action of anodyne water [179] sustains the above recommendation. 269. Asthma. Causes.—Accumulation of mucous and parasite tissues on the bronchials and base of wind-pipe, caused by the ticklings of intestinal worms or by the inspiration of irritating dust, the-effects of which may survive the cause. , Effects.—Laborious and difficult breathing from the incomplete closing of the bronchials, heavy coughing which terminates by expec- torations of a compact, greyish, clotted, insipid and. nauseous matter. Swelling of the face and very often other parts of the body; frequent strangulation. Cold augments the symptoms, because cold paralyses- the functions of mucous and renders its secretion more compact and more difficult to detach. Treatment.—Constant use of the camphorated cigarrette (131). In the mean time apply compresses (230) soaked in camphorated alcohol (139) on the chest and around the neck. Frequent frictions of a quarter of an hour with camphorated ointment (158) immediately after washing with anodyne water (169), more especially at the period of an access of coughing. Take 25 centigrammes of camphor, three times a day [122.] Every four days aloes [99]. Aloes injections [220] from time to time. Frequent salt water gargles [223]. Solid and aromatic food [410]. If the inhalations of the cigarrette do not produce relief soon enough, fold a small piece of linen in eight fold; soak it with' a drop of campho- rated alcohol; place it between your lips and draw your breath with force; A small linen wad soaked in camphorated! alcohol and placed in a quill tube will have the same effect; it would then be a cigarette of camphorated alcohol which would be used as the camphor cigarette (131). . , Cases cured.—Cures have been so numerous since the adoption of this treatment that I often neglect recording them, unless in par- ticular cases. I will merely cite the two following : 1 °. Mrs. Simon, aged about sixty years was suffering under asthma, every winter, so severely that her life was in danger. Since she has adopted this treatment, she has passed the cold sea- sons without the least accident and seems to have recoved the health of her younger days. The winter of 1844 and the absence of attendance produced a suffering more intense than usual, but it was only tran- sient.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
