Modern therapeutics of the diseases of children : with observations on the hygiene of infancy / By Joseph F. Edwards.

  • Edwards, Joseph F. (Joseph Francis), 1853-1897.
Date:
1885
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    the very onset of tlie disease, in distilled or cold boiled rain-water filtered. He never gives emetics or aperients, nor bleeds, nor does anything to lower tlie vital powers. Mr. Erasmus Wilson (Disease) of the Skin) confesses to a Btrong leaning in favor of ammonia treat- ment, and, instead of salines, begins, from the first, with a solution of the carbonate of ammonia ; 2 or 3 grains for a child under seven years of age, and 4 or 5 grains for a child above this age, dissolved in from 2 to 4 drachms of water, and administered every one. two, three, or four hours, according to the degree of seventy of the fever. (See, also, F. :!4T.) Argenti Nitras. Dr. Edward Copeman remarks, in the St. George's Hospital Reports, 1870. that for the relief of those severe cases in which there is a profuse ichorous discharge from the throat and nostrils, with disposi- tion to sloughing ulcers in the pharynx, he has seen no local remedy so successful as a free application of a solution of nitrate of silver (from 4 to 8 grains to an ounce), by means of a brush or syringe. Dr. X11:- meyer also recommends the nitrate, lie says that, in anginose cases, as soon as the BlougllS have been detached, we may touch the ulcers in the throat daily, with a solution of nitrate of silver (gj CO §ij water), applied by means of a prohang ; and for the coryza, we may inject a weak solution of nitrate of si her (^r. v-x to t, ij water) into the nos- trils. Croup i iplicating angina maligna indicates tlie administration of an emetic and the application of a solution of nitrate of silver to the glottis. Baptisia Tinctoria. The electic physicians assert that a gargle prepared from tlie wdd indigo weed, acts specifically in the sore throat of scarlet fever. (SCUDDEU.) Belladonna is said by BARTHOLOW to he useful when the eruption is imperfect or bluish, the peripheral circulation feeble anil the heart's action de- pressed. It is also highly recommended by Dr. Henry Beates, Jr., of Philadelphia, in the Medical ami Surgical Reporter, 1883, and Dr. OWEN PRITCHARD (.Lancet, 1881.) thinks that when given to those who are exposed to the disease it will act as a prophylactic. Brominiinn. Dr. W. II. THOMPSON, (New Yoik.) has met witli far fewerthroat complications since he has used this agent. He employs it as follows : 353. R. Potassii bromidi, q. s. ad saturandum Aquai, f. 3 ij To this, add very slowly, and with frequent shaking : Brominii, f. ^j Aquam, adf.giv. Of this solution, 1 drachm is added to 1 ounce of water, and a tea- spoonful is given in a tablespoonlul of sweetened water, as requited, the solution being kept in a dark place. As a local application, equal parts of the solution and of glycerine are used, or, in bad cases, the solution alone. Occasional purees of calomel and jalap may be given, until the action of which the antiseptic may be suspended.