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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![You may preserve yourself from cholera by following the campho- rated regimen and aloes (262); a full diet well seasoned with garlic, pepper and ginger (41); and by repeated lotions of campho- rated alcohol [139], or cologne water, and prolonged frictions with camphorated ointment (160). A cure will be obtained, if at the first symptoms you redouble this preventive treatment and cease it only when every danger has disappeared. Apply vermifuge poultices [166] on the belly; which are to be renewed every quarter of an hour and copious frictions with camphorated alcohol (139) on the same part, whilst the poultice is making. Take immediately aloes and herb broth [99]; vermifuge injections with tobacco [220]; every hour take 25 centigrammes of camphor with a mouthful of tar water [209]. Apply compresses of anodyne water [169] on the head, around the neck and wrists ; mois- ten the whole back with the same water and rub incessantly from the neck to the fundament with camphorated ointment [160]. Use frequent gargles of saltwater [224]. A few hours after you have begun this treatment, give to the patient one gramme of calomel in cristals, broken, but not reduced to powder [110] and half an hour afterwards castor oil [195]. When the paroxysm is over, place him in an anodine and alcalino-ferruginous bath [107] and rub him when he comes out. Full aromatized diet [41] whenever the patient has an appetite. 280. Falls. Treatment.—Apply anodyne water (169) on the head and around the neck; wash the whole body with the same water and apply com- presses on the bruised parts, when not rent assunder, and use frictions of camphorated ointment (160). This treatment will cure in a few moments the effects of a most violent fall, provided the essential vital organs have not been endangered. Case cured.—On the 3rd December 1844, Mr. Collas my druggist, came to see me at ten o'clock one frosty morning. Half an hoar afterwards he ascended the first staircase of an old farm house. In coming down, the snow which had stuck to his boots made him miss the first step and he rolled down the whole staircase at the botton of which he was picked up senseless. He was brought to my house, hardly able to support himself on his legs. The worst contusionwas on the left cheek bone ; the eye was enormously swelled and inflamed and the patient only saw through a mist. A violent head ache and inflammation in the feet seized him when he recovered. I undressed him, rubbed his back with camphorated alcohol, immersed his head in anodyne water and applied com- presses of the same around his neck, on the lower back bone and thighs and principally on the temples, the cheek bone and left eye brow. I washed his eye with one or two drops of anodyne water mixed in a wine glass of water and gave, at intervals of ten minutes two glasses of sugared water, aromatized with four or five drops of](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21149318_0077.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
