Outlines of a course of lectures on the materia medica : designed for the use of students, delivered at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina / by Henry R. Frost.

  • Frost, Henry Rutledge, 1790-1866.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Outlines of a course of lectures on the materia medica : designed for the use of students, delivered at the Medical College of the State of South Carolina / by Henry R. Frost. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    an important system of vessels, the oapW/xries—constituting the seat of inflammation ; the capillaries being inflamed and distended with blood, no remedy more important to relieve this distension, and to lessen the impetus of the advancing column. An inflamed eye, which is red as scarlet before bleeding, in a few moments is essentially improved in its ap- pearance, and a repetition will frequently remove it. In Acute Puerperal Peritonitis, or Puerperal Fever.—The treatment must be antiphlogistic ; one direction should be particularly enforced, that it be drawn early and freely ; un- safe to resort to this evacuation after the disease has been established thirty hours. Many authorities adduced as to its utility in this disease ; Dis. Alexander Gordon, La Gouais, Meigs, Lee. The state of the pulse should not deter from the use of the remedy ; often small and contracted, but be- comes fuller and stronger during the time the blood lias been flowing, or soon after. Pain • a safer guide than the pulse. The great mortality which has taken place in this and other varieties of uterine inflammation, certainly cannot be attributed to the abuse of blood-letting, for it is observed that few of those bled early and copiously, died ; while those terminated fatally which either were not bled at all, or very late and sparingly, and took stimulants. Blood-letting not recommended in febrile inflammatory dis- eases, to the exclusion of other active remedies ; other valu- able auxiliaries. Objections to the use of the lancet considered and an- swered. 1. Dropsies and anasarcous swellings the frequent conse- quences of its employment. 2. Increasing the debility which exists in febrile diseases. 3. Rendering its habitual employment necessary. Conclude by noticing the immediate effects of this remedy on patients laboring under disease. A reduction of the force and frequency of the pulse. The sudden removal of pain. Reducing the temperature of the surface. Promoting the operation of cathartic medicines. Tendency to induce sleep. Morbid effects of blood-letting.