A therapeutic guide to alkaloidal-dosimetric-medication / by John M. Shaller, M.D.

  • Shaller, John M., 1856-1931.
Date:
1904
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Credit: A therapeutic guide to alkaloidal-dosimetric-medication / by John M. Shaller, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    asthenia is not present, active treatment with amorphous aconitine should be begun at once. To give a placebo and wait until tomorrow in order to make a positive diagnosis, before begin- ning active treatment, is a loss of very valuable time. The rise in temperature is ominous and may prove serious. When the human body is plainly showing by many signs, as by abnormal tempera- ture, chilliness or rigor, headache, general lassi- tude, quickened pulse and respiration, that an inflammatory disease is threatening, experience cannot always tell where the general storm, which seems to be gathering in all parts of the body or at least pervades throughout the body, will finally localize its entire force. If this force is localized, congestion results, and this in turn leads to inflammation. It is our duty to attempt to prevent this general storm from localizing in a single organ or structure. If the local conges- tion is primary and the general symptoms as described are secondary, our effort should still be for jugulation, and the results of treatment will be the same. Congestion may be checked and the disturbed circulation will be restored to the normal. Whenever this has been done an inflammation has been prevented.' Even if in- flammation is present it may be checked, thus preventing its further advancement and the estab- lishment of disease. There is no doubt, whatever, about this, and notwithstanding the preponderance of opinion against this, acute inflammatory diseases are aborted.