The home physician : written especially for the use of families, using "the divided medicines," / which are prepared by Frederick Kraus.

  • Barrows, G. H.
Date:
1871
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Credit: The home physician : written especially for the use of families, using "the divided medicines," / which are prepared by Frederick Kraus. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    wakeful, but seldom delirious. These symptoms continue for a length of time, when they begin to relax, and the body is gen- erally bathed with a gentle perspiration, and the patient ex- periences a relief; this is called the remission, which lasts from four or five hours to a day, and another paroxysm takes place similar to the first, and thus the alternation. Each successive paroxysm becomes more severe and protracted, and each re- mission between the paroxysms shorter, until the disease has reached its height, when the pulse is more frequent, being sometimes above one hundred and twenty in a minute. The heat and dryness of the skin become augmented, the tongue, previously colored with a yellowish white coat, becomes of a brownish black color, as the disease advances. In the majority of cases there is more or less tenderness upon pressure in the region of the stomach and liver, with a feeling of weight and burning which in most cases is very violent. The nausea and vomiting are excessive, and the. matter ejected is of an acrid, bitter taste, and of a yellow, greenish, or brownish color. The stomach, in some cases, can not retain food or drink of any kind. The bowels, in the early stage of the disease, are gener- ally constipated, but as the disease advances become loose; and the stools are of a bilious nature; the skin assumes a yel- lowish hue, and the whites of the eyes partake of the same color. Such are the symptoms which usually attend bilious fever when fully formed, continuing in greater or less severity until about the fifteenth day, when it begins to decline, or pro- ceeds onward in its course, unless the disease assumes a new character, as bilious, typhoid, or congestive fever. The cause of bilious or remittent fever is, probably, a miasma, proceeding from low and marshy countries, and derangement of the liver, etc. Treatment* Aconite No. II, one square, dissolved in a tea-spoonful of water, every two hours, when there is much fever, with burning thirst, and dry, heated skin, with bilious vomiting, and bitter tast? in the mouth. Bryonia alb No. I, one square, directions as above, when with fever, there is associated stitches in the head, constipation and great debility. Ckamomilla No. II, one square, directions as above, when the stools are of a greenish character, resembling stirred-up eggs; bitter and sour vomiting and heat, especially in the face and eyes; biUer taste and foul smell from the mouth.