Report on the yellow fever of 1867 : made by request to the American Institute of Homoeopathy / by William H. Holcombe.

  • Holcombe, William H. (William Henry), 1825-1893.
Date:
1869
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Credit: Report on the yellow fever of 1867 : made by request to the American Institute of Homoeopathy / by William H. Holcombe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ness, slight discoloration of the eyes or skin, and acid eructa- tions or vomiting. This patient must be fed with milk-punch, — a tablespoonful of best brandy to half a glass of fresh milk, — and nourished every three or four hours with enemas of one ounce of strong beef-tea. Give a tablespoonful of the punch every two or three hours. Every time he vomits, give him a teaspoonful of officinal lime-water. Put a cold compress over his abdomen, and a small one across the lower part of the neck in front. If not relieved, give one grain of Argentum nitricum, 1st centesimal trituration, after every act of vomiting. The effect of this remedy is sometimes truly wonderful. To an obstinate case, attended with increasing prostration, give a teaspoonful or tablespoonful of best iced champagne every two or three hours, or even often er. Crotalus must be steadily persisted in about every two hours in all malignant or severe cases of yellow fever in the second stage. You will see other cases — cerebral cases — in which the fever, stupor, etc., of the first stage do not appear to subside, but deepen rather into a kind of typhus, with strong symptoms of meningeal inflammation. These are very frequently fatal cases, and always hard to manage. Besides the remedies above indicated for the febrile stage, great benefit may be expected from Glonoine3 and Corallia6. Dr. Bailey, of New Orleans, one of our most intelligent and successful practitioners, was, I believe, the first to recommend Corallia in this congestive cere- bral form of yellow fever. I can testify to its value, especially in the cases of children. There is still another form of the second stage of yellow fever, almost as dangerous and fatal; when the remission of the febrile symptoms is imperfect, and the disease assumes a kind of gastro-hepatic, inflammatory type. It is characterized by burn- ing pains in the stomach and bowels, vomiting, passing from