The lightning doctor : a self-diagnostician and practical doctor book for private families, students, and physicians / by Benjamin Franklin Weaver ; with thirty-two illustrations (four etchings and twenty-eight photo-engravings from life) and 1,554 modern and up-to-date recipes for treating both general and special diseases of men, women, and children.

  • Weaver, Benjamin Franklin, 1839-
Date:
1905
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Credit: The lightning doctor : a self-diagnostician and practical doctor book for private families, students, and physicians / by Benjamin Franklin Weaver ; with thirty-two illustrations (four etchings and twenty-eight photo-engravings from life) and 1,554 modern and up-to-date recipes for treating both general and special diseases of men, women, and children. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    NO. 2. ACUTE DIARRHCEA. Diarrhoea.— A purging, looseness, or too frequent passing of faeces. A frequent and profuse discharge of loose or fluid evacuations, without tenesmus. It is divided into two forms, acute, or occasional, and chronic diarrhoea. Treatment: i^ Sodium Bicarbonate 1 drachm Aromatic Spirits Ammonia 3 drachms Tinct. Cardamom Comp 6 drachms Aquae Cinnamon 6 ounces M. Sig.— One or two tablespoonfuls every two or three hours. Food should consist of milk, rice, fine flour puddings and bread, toast, eggs, crackers, and cheese ; dried meats and fish in small quantities should be given instead of fresh meat, fish, and vegetables.— Yeo. Homoeopathic Treatment : Aconite, 3x dilution. Two drops every half hour. Indications — First stages of bowel disease; stools watery, dark-colored, slimy mucus; bloody, small, and frequent; after sudden cold changes of temperature; great thirst, want to drink large quantities of water at one time. Colocynthis, 3x dilution. Three drops every half hour. Indications — Frequent urging to stools ; severe colicky pains, mostly around the navel, has to bend double, be- ing worse in any other position; diarrhcea renewed each time after taking food or drink. Mercurius Corrosivus, 3x trituration, five grains every two hours. Indications—Very distressing, persistent tenesmus and cutting, colicky pains after stools, burning and tenesmus of rectum and bladder; stools frequent, scanty, nothing but mucus tinged with blood.