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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![1861.] Clinical Lecture on Abortive Measures of Treatment in Cases of Typhoid Fever. By Austin Flint, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, etc., in the Mew Orleans School of Medicine. Gentlemen—I have chosen as the subject of my lecture to- day, a renewal of the cases of typhoid fever which have been under our observations during the winter, with reference es- pecially to abortive measures of treatment. Abortive measures of treatment are those employed to arrest the progress of the disease either by cutting it short, jugulating it as the French writers say, or by abridging ma- terially its career. Up to a late period measures for these ends were employed habitually by physicians, and, as was supposed, with considerable success. Blood-letting, cathar- tics, emetics, mercurialization, and other means have been advocated as possessing the power of arresting the common continued or typlidid fever. But since the natural history of the disease has been more acurately studied, and its diagnos- tic characters better understood than they were but a few years ago, it has come to be considered very generally that it cannot be controlled by any measures at present known. The measures just mentioned have mostly gone out of use in the treatment of the disease; at all events, few, if any, now resort to them with the expectation of arresting the disease. The doctrine taught by the most approved writers at the present time is, that the typhoid and other forms of continued fever must have their course, and that the power of the physician is limited to palliating symptoms, sustaining the vital forces and guiding the disease to a favorable termination. This doc- trine, however, is not accepted by all. Some years since, Dr. Henry, of Illinois, communicated for the medical journals several papers in which he asserted that opium in large doses combined with calomel, succeeds in arresting alike remitting and continued fevers. More recently, Dr. Dundas, of Live£ pool, has claimed in behalf of large doses of quinia a potency as great in continued as in periodical fevers. My distin- guished friend and colleague, the Professor of Practice in this School, Prof. Fenner, advocates the use of quinia in laro-e doses, combined with opium, as successful, if resorted to early and efficiently, in often cutting short continued fever, and in abridging its duration and modifying its intensity when the disease is not at once arrested, jt have made some observa- tions with respect to the abortive treatment of typhoid fever and been led to think that opium in large doses and the wet sheet employed often, after the manner of the hydropathists,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22346910_0049.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
