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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![1845. In some cases she treated patients by my method and invited them to be more courageous than she had been and not lose their chance of being completly cured. When] remember this Bftd result and such a fatal obstinacy, tears rush to my eyes. 266. Cakies of the bones. Causes.—Caries proceeds from the denudation of the bones or from the exposure of the denuded surface to the contact of air, or from the lasting action of a mercurial treatment [5G]; or finally, from the ero- sion oflaxvas of insects and principally those of flies. Effects.—When caries takes place by the erosion of a larva, the patient experiences a shooting pain, which sometimes resembles the action of a gimblet entering in the bone. He suffers insupportable pains in the bone. No such diagnostic is remarked when the bone is denuded or under the action of mercury. Disorganisation of the bones very often progresses fearfully, without any other pain than that of friction and sudden jerks. Treatment.—Complete hyegenic regimen [262], use of ioduro rvhuicrr tizane [198]. Complete camphorated dressing (271) with injections of milk warm tar water [209] and camphorated oil (153) in the osseous fistules. Application of anodyne water (169) above and below the wound, and around the neck and wrists whenever fever makes its appearance, sprinkle the bands of dressing often with cam- phorated alcohol, and even the sore if you suspect the action of mer- cury, in order to facilitate the sundering of disorganised shreds of flesh (64). 277. Mesenteric atrophy of children, (obsttjction of the belly.) Causes.—Invasion of the peritoneum by worms. Effects.—The belly swells and becomes distended. The child loses appetite and rest, which is replaced by a continual drowsiness he experiences cholics and alternately constipation and diarrhoea. Treatment.—Apply on the belly, especially at night, a vermifuge poultice (166) ; employ vigorous frictions (160), at least three times a day. Give him endive syrup (241) morning and evening; camphor three times a day, (122). Vermifuge injections (217) every evening. You may see in my large work vol. II. p. 573, an example of the effects of this treatment compared with the old method. 278. Catarrh, cold in the chest, gripe, infuenza, hooping cough. Causes.—Catarrh or cold in the chest may be caught in every season; gripe .which according to the country ,bares the names of follette & nijluf-nza is an epidemic brought on by cold and foggy weather. Hooping cough is now applied only to-children laboring under a cold accompanied with strong spasms of coughing. The word cold is applied only to runnings of the mucous membrane of nose and respi- ratory organs. Catarrh applies to all the organs which communicate with the exterior air; we say catarrh of the bladder, of the uterus, as well as catarrh of the chest. In the present case we give it the latter definition. Catarrh or cold in the lungs is produced by ticklings of inert or ani-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0074.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
