The treatment of alcoholic inebriety : read before the Northwestern Medical and Surgical Association, March 18, 1893, and before the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety, March 23, 1893 / by Frederick Peterson.

  • Frederick Peterson
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1893
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Credit: The treatment of alcoholic inebriety : read before the Northwestern Medical and Surgical Association, March 18, 1893, and before the American Association for the Study and Cure of Inebriety, March 23, 1893 / by Frederick Peterson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    / 1. Cut off all alcohol, and confine to bed. 2. Blue pill at night, followed by saline cathartic. 3. Hot wet pack for sleeplessness. 4. Hypodermatic injection of nitrate of strychnia, gr. TV to -ST- 5. Water, milk, kumyss, broths, soup, meat juice, raw eggs, arrowroot, juicy fruits and the like, when there is gastric disturbance. This is the outline, in short, of a kind of treat¬ ment adapted to all cases of acute alcoholism, though as before stated, bromide and chloral, or duboisine, are indicated in a certain number of instances. In chronic alcoholism, which manifests itself most commonly as a form of neurasthenia, the following should be the ordinary routine treatment: 1. Cut off alcohol. 2. Hot wet pack for insomnia. 3. Disturbances of the alimentary canal to be met by aperients and dyspeptic remedies (rhubarb anu soda, hydrochloric acid and the like). The diet should be milk, eggs and vegetable foods, meats rarely. 4. Strychnia again the main agent to restore nerve tone ; best given hypodermatically, but may be given by mouth in combination with quinine, or in fluid extract of cinchona to dr. j), or in infusion of gentian. Having now briefly gone over what I consider to be the best methods of meeting immediate conditions apparent in any case of inebriety brought to the physician for advice and treatment, the more impor¬ tant question arises as how to rid him of the habit —how to cure the disease of inebriety. This is a most complex question, and one that has for many decades commanded the attention of all men, lay¬ men, lawyers, physicians and charlatans. Either the desire for alcohol must be got rid of, or the alco¬ hol itself must be made unattainable. To eradicate
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