Outlines of the diseases of women / by John Phillips.

  • Phillips, John.
Date:
1897
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Credit: Outlines of the diseases of women / by John Phillips. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    At the end of a week the quantity of pills should be increased to five a day, two being taken night and morning. This must be continued for a fortnight, and finally as many as nine pills a day may be taken. It is better to give a saline purge, such as Carlsbad or Friedrichshall water, every morning. Treatment may extend over from six to eight weeks. Iron can also be given in the form of reduced iron (gr. ij) and the saccharated carbonate of iron (gr. xxx). A drug which is often successful when iron and purgatives fail is the permanganate of potash, and a pill as under should be given three times a day. Its value in all probability depends upon its oxygen-yielding powers. R Potassii Permanganates . ■ « • gr. ij Kaolin gr. ij Vaselin q.s. (2) Cases where a chill has delayed or suppressed a period. As the patient is usually in much pain, sometimes amounting to agony, absolute rest in bed is essential. Before this, however, sitting in a hip-bath, filled with mustard and hot water, for a quarter of an hour, or the feet in the same solution, should be resorted to. It must be remembered that suppressed menstrua- tion is often accompanied by localised peritonitis and salpingitis, that recurrence is frequent, and that if every precaution is not taken the disease may become chronic. For medical treatment nothing acts better than a glass of hot gin-and-water, followed by a Dover's powder (gr. x). Copious diaphoresis results. Instead of gin-and-water, a mixture as follows: R Liq. Ammon. Acet 5j Sp. Mther. Sulph. Co 5?s Mist. Chloroformi oj may be ordered every four hours. If the abdomen is distended and very tender, the knees drawn up, and the face anxious, a morphia and belladonna sup- pository should be given, and a light poultice applied to the abdomen. Routine treatment is generally advisable when the period is over, and until the next appears, and for this nothing is better than the ordinary mistura alba of the Hospital Pharmacopoeias: R Magnesias Carbonatis . . , • . Sr- x Magnesia Sulphatis gr. *x to 3ss Aq. Menthse Piperita} ad 5] Twice or thrice daily as required.