Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet ; translated, with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton.

Date:
1830
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Credit: Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet ; translated, with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    commencing with one gi-ain, which may be gradually raised to several grains daily, for the individual action of each is neutralized by their combination; the hydrocj'anic acid, in very minute quantities; and lastly, carbonate of iron, the amount of which that may be taken with impunity, ex- tends from a scruple to one or two drachms daily. It will also be proper to try such external applications as hold out any reasonable prospect of success, and whicii are not very painful; such, for instance, as frictions with ether, laudanum, compound camphor or soap liniment, or tincture of cantharides, galvanism, and electricity, in tlie manner described by Andrieux; hot narcotic cataplasms, or sinapisms over the seat of pain. Cold applications to the head are beneficial when the patient complains of a sense of ardent heat, and pain is increased by wannth ; lastly, cupping, flagellation of the affected part, compression of tlie nerve, cauterization and acupuncture, are occasionally useful in moderating the violence of a paroxysm. If these remedies aflbrd no relief, or, for some reason, a fair trial cannot be given to them, our only resource is in more pow- erful measures, such as mercurial friction, continued until salivation is produced, the application of a blister in the course of a nerve, or a plaster, the surface of which is sprinkled with tartarized antimony, placed behind the cor- responding ear, the insertion of an issue, burning with mosa, and lastly, affusion of hot or ice cold water, according to its effect. When neuralgia occupies a nerve of the extremities, as