A new compendium of the principles and practice of medicine : embracing the most recent improvements in the science / by Abrm. Livezey and J. Emerson Kent.

  • Livezey, Abraham, 1821-1896.
Date:
1853
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    and vomiting subside ; and three or four doses are gener- ally sufficient. All liquids denied to the patient. Bleed- ing not in any case adopted, because he had seen its fatal effects in the Salamandrine Hospital, and at Vera Cruz. (B. Rush Mitchell.) Of the preceding modes of treatment, we prefer that of Prof. Mitchell ; but none of them meet with our en- tire accordance. Calomel, in its action, is too depressing an agent to be employed in an Electrical form of disease, —the emetic, or the emeto-cathartic is appropriate ; but in lieu of the calomel, we would employ podophylline and irisine two grains each, with emetine gr. 1-8, repeated every thirty minutes until emesis and catharsis (remission) is obtained. We would then administer intermittents, as quinine and pipcrine, each five to ten grains, every two hours—and thereby endeavor to prevent the paroxysmal repetition. The nausea and vomiting may be frequently subdued by the administration of the following draught: E. Quinije Sulph., gr. i. Ferri Mar- Tinct, gtt. xv. Aquse Font., § ss. M. If the stomach rejects the first draught, it should be re- peated in about fifteen minutes ; but we have seldom found more than one of the above draughts necessary. If the depression is extreme, the quinine and piperine may be doubled, and the aromatic spts. of ammonia, in doses of thirty drops, may be given at intervals of about four hours. Sometimes hot brandy and water may be ad- vantageously administered, especially during the intermit- tent periods, and immediately preceding the depression which marks the accession of another febrile paroxysm. Says Dr. Madden, in narrating the treatment of yellow 4