A treatise on the new-discovered dropsy of the membranes of the brain, and watery head of children : proving that it may be frequently cured, if early discovered, with objections to vomits, &c. &c. : to which are added, observations on errors in nursing, on the diseases of children, their treatment, &c. proper for the contemplation of parents / by William Rowley.

  • Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.
Date:
1801
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Credit: A treatise on the new-discovered dropsy of the membranes of the brain, and watery head of children : proving that it may be frequently cured, if early discovered, with objections to vomits, &c. &c. : to which are added, observations on errors in nursing, on the diseases of children, their treatment, &c. proper for the contemplation of parents / by William Rowley. 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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    II. To promote pcrfpiration, and Simulate the abforbents by calomel and antimony, and keep the bodv warm. III. To act upon the torpid enervated ftomach and intei- tines, and occafionally to evacuate ferum by mercurial and Stimulating cathartics. IV. To impart tone and vigour to the debilitated habit bv tonics of bark, steel, w'.riolaled zinc, acid, or fwect elixir of vitriol. V. The inftituting a very dry diet, that the corroborating effects of the tonics may not be counteracted and defeated, bv diluting drinks or flops, tea, See. VI. After the cure to Hill continue the tonics, dry nouriih- iog diet, and warm clothing, to prevent a future relapfe *. External Remedy. The cure confifts in attracting a great quantity of fluid externally, by having the head fluivcd, and by the application of a blifter covering the whole head, which muft continue difcharging, by means of ungucntum cantharidis, or un- guentum fabinx; but this latter is not fo certain as the former, unlefs fome pulvis fabinx be added. As the ungucntum fabinx docs not caufc ftrangury, if a great difeharge be obtained, it is fuperior to the ungucntum cantharidis ; but a confiderable difeharge mull be procured, or the difeafe will certainly prove fatal. The attraction of fluid to the fcalp muft be continued a considerable time after the comatofc or other preffing fymp- toms abate, or are entirely removed. The fizc of the plaifter may be gradually diminiflicd; and when the cure is completed, and the habit llrengthened by tonics, a difeharge is no longer neccflary. * Whoever wiflies to know how tlie bodv is nouiifhcd, with tlie ef- fects of falubrious and infalubrious or unhealthy diet, may lead the fourth volume of the Rational and improved Practice of Phyfic. T«