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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    Podophjllin No. II, one square, directions as above, when the symptoms assume a bilious type, as vomiting of a yellowish matter, and yellow color of the eyes; stools of a yellow-green- ish color, etc. Ipecacuanha No. I, one square, directions as above, when nausea and vomiting are the prominent symptoms, with quick, anxijus breathing, and great debility. Arsenicum No. I, one square, directions as above, if there is burning \\ the stomach, with vomiting of black matter and blood; great pain'ulness of the stomach on pressure ; stools are acrid and burning, and are sometimes involuntarily. Rhus fox No. I, one square, directions as above, when the symptoms assume a typhoid type, as dry heat to the body, tongue of a dark, brownish color ; diarrhceic stools of an offen- sive odor, and a blackish color, in the worst cases. FLATULENCY OH BELCHIHG. These symptoms arise from a gas produced in the stomach by indigestion, from food in a state of fermentation, (see dys- pepsia). Treatment. Carbo veg No. I, one square, dissolved in a tea-spoonful of water after each meal, if arising from taking the least food. China No. II, one square, directions as above, if in conse- quence of taking flatulent food, and after eating fat meats or fruits, and accompanied with distension of the abdomen. Nux Vomica No. I, one square, dissolved in a tea-spoonful of water, and to be taken one hour before each meal, if accom- panied with headache after eating. Pulsatilla No. II, directions as above, after eating rich or fat food. FLUX, (see dysentery.) GASTRITIS, or Inflammation of the Stomach. Gastritis is an inflammation of the mucus membrane, cover- ing the stomach and bowels, and is divided into acute and chronic gastritis. The symptoms of acute gastritis are charac- terized by an acute, burning pain in the region of the stomach, (which is situated in the upper part of the abdomen), with nau- sea and vomiting, which usually commences with the attack,