The pocket formulary for the treatment of disease in children / by Ludwig Freyberger.

  • Freyberger, L. (Ludwig)
Date:
1914
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Credit: The pocket formulary for the treatment of disease in children / by Ludwig Freyberger. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    RABIES. Symptoms: Not earlier than six weeks after the dog-bite ; difficulty of breathing ; dysphagia ; great restlessness ; deli- rium ; convulsions ; coma. Death from paralysis of respira- tory centre. Treatment: Locally.—Chloride of zinc ; actual cautery. Internally.—Chloral hydrate, tannin, opium, curare ; intravenous injection of physiological salt solution ; injection of Pasteur’s anti-rabies serum. RANUNCULUS. See DAPHNE MEZEREUM. RESORCIN. Symptoms : Resembling drunkenness ; delirium ; collapse ; coma ; epileptiform or tetanic convulsions, followed by paralysis. Treatment: Excitants ; ether, camphor, claret; stomach- pump ; zinc sulphate. RICINI OLEUM. Symptoms : Haemorrhagic gastro-enteritis; pain and burn- ing sensation in throat; nausea ; vomiting ; colic ; frequent mucous, watery, or bloody motions ; tenesmus ; lassitude ; sleepiness ; headache ; thirst; burning sensation in skin ; feeble, frequent pulse ; clammy perspiration ; icterus ; dysuria and anuria ; death in convulsions or collapse. Croton oil: the same symptoms, but the inflammation is more acute ; formation of ulcers on skin ; redness, swelling, and pustulation. Treatment: Amylacea and oleacea; milk ; albumen; opiates ; ether hypod. ; no ammonia preparations, for they saponify the oil and liberate croton oleic acid. SALICYLIC ACID (and Salicylates). Symptoms: Redness and swelling of mucosa of mouth, throat, and larynx ; vomiting ; diarrhoea ; gastro-enteritis ; melrena ; dyspnoea or delirium, with hallucinations ; maniacal stupor ; unconsciousness ; contraction of pupils ; eclamptic or tetanic convulsions ; deafness ; tinnitus aurium and inten- sive headache. Treatment: Emetics ; stomach-pump ; purgatives ; pilo- carpine; hot punch ; potass, carbonate or bicarbonate. SALOL. See PHENOL and SALICYLIC ACID. SANTONIN Symptoms: Coloured vision, especially xauthopia ; xanth- uria ; nausea ; vomiting ; headache ; vertigo ; tremor; sway- ing to and fro ; restlessness; dyspnoea ; clonic spasms, starting in eyelids ; unconsciousness ; stupor; epileptiform attacks ; death from suffocation or syncope.