The elements of a new materia medica and therapeutics : Based upon an entirely new collection of drug-provings and clinical experience / By E.E. Marcy, J.C. Peters & Otto Füllgraff.

  • Marcy, E. E. (Erastus Edgerton), 1815-1900.
Date:
[1850?]
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    ACIDUM ACETICUM. ACETIC ACID. AUTHORITIES. Orfila (2.) Pereira El. of Mat. Med. Vol. 1. P. 351. (3.) Parrot. (40.) Beyer. (41.) Ottinger. (42.) Klusemann. (43.) Wiring's Thera- peutics. (44.) Vogt's Materia Medica (20.) Marcy (10.) Peters (11.) PHENOMENA. Intellect.—Confusion of ideas ; disinclination to exert the mind; slight and transient delirium ; diminished intellectual power. (2.) Clinical Remarks.—It has proved curative in mania with cerebral excitement; delirium caused by opium ; delirium of typhus ; alternate stupor and delirium of typhus. Disposition.—Irritability of temper; nervous and excitable mood.(2.) Head.—Giddiness ; dull pains in the forehead and vertex ; shooting pains through the temples; heaviness of the head with sense of in- toxication ; indications of vascular excitement in the brain ; distention of the temporal blood vessels, with increased heat of the head. (2.) Clinical Remarks.—-It has proved curative of haemorrhage of the nose, arising from determination of blood to the head—(used locally as well as internally) ; headaches from abuse of stimulants, tobacco, coffee and opium; affections of the brain dependent on nervous con- gestion. (3.) Scalp.— Clinical Remarks.—In Tinea capitis, the local application of the strong acid is recommended by Wigan. The first application is with the acid, diluted with three times its weight of water. On being applied, a number of spots previously looking healthy, become red patches ; then, with a piece of sponge tied to the end of a stick, each spot is to be saturated thoroughly with the strong acid for three or four minutes. A single application is sufficient in the majority of cases. A crust grows up with the hair, which may be removed as soon as a pair of fine scissors can. be introduced beneath it. Eras- mus Wilson speaks favorably of a similar mode of treatment repeated once a week. Eye.—Clinical Remarks.—Particles of Lime in the eye are effectu- ally dissolved and the pain eased, by bathing the eye into diluted vinegar. (11.) Face.—Face pale and waxen; eyes sunken and surrounded by a dark circle. (44.) Throat.— Clinical Remarks.—The sore-throat of scarlet fever is much benefitted by the application of the steam of warm vinegar; in quinsy, and almost every form of ulcerated or relaxed sore-throat much relief is obtained by inhaling the vapor of hot vinegar and water.