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.
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[1850?]
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    more beneficial. The Nitrate as a remedy for dysentery was employed in the form of enema by Dr. Osborne, of Dublin, in 1831, and Dr. Hudson states that it has been in common use in Dublin since that date. He adds that in his own practice, as well as in that of others, the best effects have followed its use. In conclusion, Dr. Waring adds his testimony to that of all the others, when given internally. He has employed it extensively in the later stages of acute and in chronic dysentery, in doses never exceeding a grain and a half daily, and in almost every instance its administration has been followed by speedy and permanent improvement. Its effects are often very remarkable. He has never seen any ill effects follow its use, though given to a child two years old. (44. 46.) In cholera, Mr. Garlike states that he has successfully employed the Nitrate of Silver. The mode of application which he advises, is to inject into the colon by means of a long flexible tube, a solution of the Nitrate. Ten minutes afterwards, he administers another enema of gruel, containing Opium. In the first case in which he employed this treatment, the patient was in a state of collapse, apparently sink- ing fast. After the introduction of the Nitrate, the purging ceased, but the vomiting continued; after forty-eight hours, the bowels acted naturally. A complete cure followed. Several others were treated in precisely the same way, with equally happy results. (44. 46.) The above clinical extracts are from standard allopathic works, and comprise the experience of the old school with regard to this drug in bowel affections. The homoeopathic physician who is familiar with the recourses of his own school in this class of maladies, will have no occasion to resort to these violent and doubtful measures. He has remedies far more efficient and harmless for almost every conceivable ailment of the organs under consideration, and he will prefer to employ these thoroughly, before resorting to a caustic. We quite disagree with Trousseau, when he asserts that we cannot repeat sufficiently often the harmlessness of this remedy, and how little founded are the fears of those physicians who dare not administer it internally.'-' We do not hesitate to enrol ourselves among those physicians who dare not administer it internally, according to the method of the standard writers of the other school. (10.) In Asiatic cholera, in some instances as much as grs. x. to Aq. oz. j., at one dose, have been administered through a glass tube, in cases with profuse and violent discharges per rectum, even though there may be a considerably high degree of cyanotic condition; but it is contra-indi- cated in the developed state of asphyxia, after collapse or paralysis. (26.) Argent.-Nitratum appears to exercise its controlling influence not only on the discharges in cases of cholera, but it ought pot to be over- looked in the premonitory stage; neither when the discharges per rec- tum continue after the absolute cholera symptoms have subsided, espe- cially when accompanied by cardialgia, or pain in hypochondriac- and prsecordial-regions; again it is known that Argent.-Nitr. is strongly