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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![mated foreign bodies, such as garrett dust or the invasion of vermicu- lar ascarides on the coatings of the wind-pipe and more especially on the larynx. Gripe is produced by the invasion of sharper vermicular parasites, which, by adhering to the isthsmus of the throat and on the mucous of the larynx, induce by the infiltration of virus, an engor- gement of the lymphatics and benumb the muscles of the neck, back and chest, which forms on the bust a sort of focus%f suffering and stiffness. Hooping cough of children has the same incipient cause as catarrhs of old men and the only difference in their character is the difference of age and organs. Effects.—As respiration is the principle which gives life to all other functions, the least trouble which supervenes in the respiratory organs must produce a general disorder ; hence do we see neglected or maltreated colds terminate by marasmus if not by pulmonary phthisis. Gripe extending its ravages on a larger scale, offers more serious characters and advances more rapidly to its fatal termination. By the treatment adopted, it might occasion, in certain populations, a frightful mortality. Treatment.—The more our treatment extends the less do we witness around us cases of neglected cold and catarrh. Even gripe, which annually visited Paris, does no longer give any sign of life; for when taken in their infancy, affections of the chest disappear by the use of camphor cigarettes (131). If with this treatment, you only surround the neck with a simple cravat soaked in anodyne water (169), you are sure of curing your spasms of coughing and eradicating the disease. Should spasms of the chest continue, the chest and neck should be covered with large compresses [230] of camphorated al- cohol (139). Use afterwards frictions with camphorated ointment (160). Adults, must moreover, when the catarrh is inveterate or rebellious, use gargles of salt water at least three times a day, and mash a piece of camphor under their teeth (122) which they swallow by a mouth- ful of tar water (209) or hops (226) ; friction with camphorated ointment at least night and morning (160) and lotion with ano- dyne water (169). Purging every four days with aloes (99) and ver- mifuge injections (229); and every forthnight take one gramme of unground calomel (110). Very few persons are obliged to undergo the whole of this treat- ment. Besides relief is obtained at the very beginning. Moreover, frictions create such a sentiment of happiness during a few hours that it nearly equals a cure. I repeat it again, the use alone of camphor cigarettes (131) is often sufficient to cure or relieve the patient. Cases cured.—To give a few examples of cure would be apparently lessening the generality of the rule. I can assure the public I have not encountered a single exception to what I advance, and every body will have more than one occasion of testing the remarkable effects of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0075.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
