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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Credit: Indigenous remedies of the Southern Confederacy which may be employed in the treatment of malarial fever / by Joseph Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    rl he Cure of Phthisis. [September The warm infusion is said by Dr. Bigelow to be a conve- nient substitute for that of chamomile flowers in facilita- ting the operation of an emetic. Dr. Anderson gave the powder in the treatment of intermittent fever in doses of from twenty to thirty grains every second hour during the intermission. In the treatment of both intermittent and remittent fever the warm decoction prepared in the proportion of one ounce of the leaves boiled in a quart of water, may be adminis- tered in the dose of a wineglassful every two hours, or oft- ener, according to circumstances. Of course the amount administered will be regulated, in a great measure, by its emetic and cathartic effects. [Concluded in our next number.] The Cure of Phthisis. At a late meeting of the Harveian Society of London, Dr. ' Pollock read a paper on this subject: “Dr. Pollock first spoke of the various stages of phthisis, which disease he did not regard as necessarily making a ’ steady progress to decay, but frequently exhibiting a suc- cession of attacks, and susceptible of local repair. Such : cases he had seen—the system sometimes opposing itself to . morbid action in so marked a manner as to cause very con- 1 siderable prolongation of life. In referring to the cure of phthisis, Dr. Pollock said he had no specific to offer, and thought that no cure, in the popular sense, would be disco- vered. lie was of opinion that the average duration of life ] since the use of cod-liver oil, as stated by some authorities « at four years was too low an estimate. Tubercle might be j absorbed, leaving the lung sound, by excavation and cica- j trization, or a cavity sometimes remains circumscribed, the j patient living for years. Waste of tissue might be ] retarded by stimulants when first goiug under treatment, j and those taken at long intervals of time were exhibited to j the society, which last gave evidence of favorable results.— Med. Times f Gaz.