Indigenous remedies of the Southern Confederacy which may be employed in the treatment of malarial fever / by Joseph Jones.

  • Jones, Joseph, 1833-1896.
Date:
1861
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    disease, but the result of my own experience witli it does not lead me to form a very high opinion of it in this respect. I have known it to remove the disease, in a tew instances, by vomiting and copious perspiration. Hut in the great majority of cases in which I have tried it no manifest ad- vantage was obtained.”—Therapeutics, vol. ii. p. 194. The testimony of Dr. Wood agrees with that of Dr. Eherle. “From the Inaugural Dissertation of Dr. Ander- son, (Hew-York, 1813,) it would appear to have been em- ployed with very great success in the treatment of inter- mittents in one of the Hew-York Hospitals. Subsequent observation of its effects has proved less favorable; and em- ployed as a mere anti-periodic, in the ordinary mode of Describing bark or quinia in the intermissions, it cannot be relied on. But I have known it to supersede the parox- ysms of intermittent fever, when given’in emetic doses, in ;he state of strong tepid infusion, shortly before the period Eor the return of the chills ; and if jointly with this method if exhibition it be administered in moderate doses at short ntervals during the apyrexia, there is little doubt that it ,vill often prove successful. Still it is greatly inferior to Sulphate of Quinia in certainty, while in its effects as thus ised, it is much more disagreeable. It may be very appro- priately tried in obstinate and frequently recurring attacks )f intermittent fever, in which Quinia has become offensive o the patient, or inoperative from repetition. The same ■emarks are applicable to its comparative efficacy in remit- ents; in which, however, its tendency to produce perspira- ion is somewhat in its favor.”—Therapeutics and Pharma- cology, vol. i. p, 298. Dr. Chapman, on the other hand, whose experience was ertainly equal to, if not larger than that of Drs. Eberle .nd Wood sustains fully the statements of Dr. Anderson. I£I have had lately put into my hands a very well written ract, in which the properties and medicinal applications of his article are fully discussed.* * Anderson on the Eupatorium, &c. &c.