Nerve prostration and other functional disorders of daily life / by Robson Roose.

Date:
1888
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Credit: Nerve prostration and other functional disorders of daily life / by Robson Roose. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    and other acids, such as the acetic, succinic, etc., are often developed. The treatment of lithoemia may he described in a few words. The causes must be avoided; the diet must be reduced and suitably modified; and a due amount of exercise must be taken. The patient should be provided with diet-rules, as described in previous pages, and every attempt should be made to restore the normal functions of the liver. Purgatives are generally indi- cated, and of these the salines are the most suitable. They may be conveniently administered in the form of such mineral waters as Friedrichshall, Hunyadi Janos, or Rubinat-Condal, and when much acidity and fermen- tation exist the Carlsbad water or salts are preferable. The various hepatic alteratives, alluded to in previous paragraphs, will often he suitable for these cases, and when the urine contains much free acid, a course of alkalies is generally indicated. The state of the skin always requires attention; tepid or warm baths are always beneficial. For young and plethoric subjects an occasional 1 urkish bath will improve the condition of the skin and promote its eliminative action. A course of treatment at such places as Bath, Buxton, Harrogate, I eplitz,or V ichy will almost always benefit chronic cases. 42