Therapeutics of infancy and childhood.

  • Jacobi, A. (Abraham), 1830-1919.
Date:
1896
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    the morning, and heated over again several times during the day. It must not be cold when taken, and may be mixed with a little table-salt. Many prefer, and tolerate best, the mixture of milk and cereal decoctions. Such must be the food for weeks and sometimes for months; the meals must be small and more numerous. Thus the patients will get well, and thus only. Acute and Chronic Enteritis, Intestinal Ca- tarrh, with diarrhcea as a prominent symptom, compare witli acute and chronic gastritis in their mutual relation. Acute catarrh of some duration extends mostly over the whole intes- tine; its worst cases are also complicated with the same condi- tion of the stomach. The most serious forms are those of acute gastro-enteritis. In them the diet must be a very strict one. No raw milk, no boiled milk, no milk at all in any mixture, in bad cases. In the very worst cases total abstinence for from one to six hours, or much longer; afterwards, teaspoon doses of a mucilaginous or farinaceous decoction from time to time. A good preparation is the following: Five ounces of barley- water, one or two drachms of brandy or whiskey, the white of one egg, salt, and cane-sugar; a teaspoonful every five or fifteen minutes, according to age or case. Later on, a table- spoonful of boiled milk may be added. The same may be mixed with mutton-broth, which, with the white of egg, is better than beef-soup or beef-tea in convalescence. In vom- iting abstinence is mostly superior to ice; the latter may sometimes quiet the stomach, and feel pleasant momentarily, but it stimulates peristalsis. Beef-tea, in its customary prepa- ration, ought to be avoided. In convalescence, when given at all, it ought to be mixed with barley- or rice-water. Towards the end of the disease, or when the discharges are numerous and copious, the blood becomes inspissated, the circulation slow, and thromboses (hydro-encephaloid) form in the smallest veins of distant organs. Then it becomes necessary to introduce liquid into the circulation by administering water through