Practical treatise on diseases peculiar to women and girls : to which is added an eclectic system of midwifery : also, the treatment of the diseases of children and the remedies used in the cure of diseases, particularly adapted to the use of heads of families & midwives / by Buel Eastman.

  • Eastman, Buell.
Date:
1848
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    comes arrested, is almost always abortive; yet the remedies which may be proper to palliate or remove the present symptoms, will occasionally have the effect of bringing back the suppressed evacuation. In young and robust subjects, or where strong determina- tions of blood take place to the head, breast, lungs, efficient bleeding should be promptly resorted to; active purgatives, after which, Laudanum and Ether, com- bined, will be highly serviceable. In moderate cases, in weak and nervous females, it will not be necessa- ry, and often improper, to bleed. Bathing the feet. and giving a strong tea of Pleunsy root, to keep up a perspiration on the skin, and allaying the nervous excitement by Assafcetida, will prove valuable. In lingering cases, of some standing, where the system has sunk under the disease, and become emaciated, I am in the habit of using the following composition, which I would recommend to be always kept in a family: 13. Take one ounce of Aloes, one fourth of an ounce Rhubarb, one ounce Canella Alba Bark, one fourth of an ounce Cinnamon bark, one fourth of an ounce Anise Seed, and one eighth of an ounce of As- safcetida, grind them fine and mix together; sufficient quantity of this composition may be given three times daily to keep up an action on the bowels. Two or three passages daily will be sufficient. For more than fifteen years, I have constantly used this mild, permanent and stimulating physic in menstrual, ner- vous, hysterical, and hypochondrical complaints.