The right use of iron, and other remedies, in the cattle plague : considered in a letter to Sir Fitz Roy Kelly, M.P., &c. &c. / by Robert Druitt.

  • Robert Druitt
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1865
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    powerful tonic and stimulant virtues, but likewise to the fact that it completely deodorized the contents of the alimentary canal. This appears to me a most important point in many diseases, for certes it must be no small gain to check putres- cent changes in the alimentary canal, and to allow nourish- ment to be absorbed untainted.” Never was woman nearer death than when we began the steel, and the effects of this remedy and the manner in which it acted were most palpable. 2. The Mineral Acids, well diluted—as the nitric, muriatic, and sulphuric—do in a lesser degree what the tincture of steel does. Their influence in atonic diarrhoea is marvellous ; and we ought to know their results in the Rinderpest. Small quantities of opium may be added. 3. The Trisnitrate of Bismuth in ounce doses would deodo- rize the alimentary canal, and soothe it, and restrain diarrhoea. I have published cases, showing how, in threatened ulceration of the bowels, the human alimentary canal may be quieted by adequate doses of this excellent drug. See Medical Times and Gazette for 1862, vol. ii., p. 595. 4. Sulphite of Potass and other compounds of sulphurous acid have great virtue in checking fermentation, and have been proposed by Polli as remedies in zymotic fevers. . 5. The admirable preparations of Mr. Condy, the per- manganate of potass, &c. We want experiments with large doses of these. But I suspect they are of more value as preventives than as curatives,—to disinfect unwholesome water, to rinse the mouths of animals exposed to contagion, and the like. 6. There is the class of Creosotes,—medicines; such as carbolic acid, which check fermentation, act as antiseptics
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