Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley.

  • Bardsley, James Lomax, 1801-1876.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In intermittents, attended with irritability of the stomach, this salt will be found an invaluable re- medy. From its possessing the essential properties of the bark in a concentrated state, it has the great advantage of producing, when exhibited in small doses, the same effects as that substance, without in- ducing nausea, or any other unpleasant symptom. Dr. Relph has correctly observed, that in some conditions of the stomach, the powder of none of the species (of bark) can be taken in such large and repeated doses as many intermittents require; besides, a considerable degree of nausea and sick- ness often accompanies these disorders through all their stages. It therefore becomes necessary (he continues) to employ some other preparation of this medicine, more likely to agree with the stomach, and in which the dose of the bark is not unnecessa- rily enlarged by any of its effete and insoluble mat- ter ; for I conceive that in most instances, it is owing rather to the quantity than to the quality of this substance that it offends the stomach*. In the sulphate of quinia we possess a preparation which is admirably adapted for use in the morbidly irritable state of stomach noticed by Dr. Relph. It would be superfluous to enumerate the various affections in which the salt under consideration may be advan- tageously employed ; I shall therefore merely mention a few of those disorders in which it appears to me * Inquiry into the Medical Efficacy of the Yellow Bark, p. 131.