Hysteria : remote causes of disease in general treatment of disease by tonic agency local or surgical forms of hysteria, etc. six lectures delivered to the students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1866 / by F.C. Skey.

  • Skey, Frederic C. (Frederic Carpenter), 1798-1872.
Date:
1870
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Credit: Hysteria : remote causes of disease in general treatment of disease by tonic agency local or surgical forms of hysteria, etc. six lectures delivered to the students of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, 1866 / by F.C. Skey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    varieties of infusions of malt. There is no comparison between the virtues of the two classes, but as poor persons cannot afford wine, they may afford good beer, of which the strongest is the most efficient; but among medicaments cinchona bark has no rival. In all cases of abscess bark is invaluable. It promotes suppuration when suppuration is inevitable, and it checks suppura- tion in the exhausting action of chronic abscess. It promotes appetite, and gives vigour to the system beyond any other known tonic, and it is only on this principle that it carries our patients rapidly through the different stages of disease. I prefer the simple tincture of bark, and I recommend you to administer it in full doses of from one to three drams twice a day. For adults I generally recommend a dessert-spoonful, and not less, and I have not observed that its employment in such doses demands the corrective influence of either purga- tive or alterative medicine ; but on the contrary, as I refer any temporary torpidity of the actions of the alimentary canal to the want of that vigour of system, and to that only, which the bark is capable of correcting, so, as a rule, subject of course to occasional exceptions, I leave the bowels alone. I have a very limited faith in the cathartic system. In this I know I am un-English; but I am content to live under the obloquy. On the subject of Avine I have no intention of entering on the question how far alcohol is a source of strength or of nutrition. As an ingredient in the diet scale of the invalid, it is indispensable ; and there is a very impor- tant rule of conduct as regards its administration, the