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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[1859-1861]
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    lessness, vomiting after every meal, impaired sight, and irritable mood; also six cases of ascites following intermittent and scarlet fevers, (cured in three to four weeks by drachm doses). (40.) Stool.—Watery diarrhoea; diarrhoea, with colic pains, and tender- ness of the abdomen to the touch ; bloody discharges from the bowels. (42.) Clinical Remarks. —In a paper read before the Epidemiological Society of London, Dr. J. H. Tucker begins by alluding to the remarkable, but well established fact, that in 1849, the cider dis- tricts of Herefordshire, Somersetshire, and part of Devonshire were to a great extent, exempt from the ravages of Cholera, while the disease was raging around. Upon farther inquiry it was ascertained that this exemption was confined a good deal to those individuals who drank cider as a common beverage, and that those who partook of malt liquor occasionally suffered. He also remarks that in some parts of France and Normandy, more particularly where cider is the common beverage, cholera is seldom known to exist. Tucker also expresses the opinion that other vegetable acids will be found of service, such as lemon juice, (but lemonade often causes griping and diarrhoea,) orange juice, and sour wines made from grapes. As it would be quite impossible to supply the world with a sufficient quan- tity of pure cider, he suggests that Vinegar might be found a useful substitute in case of another outbreak of Cholera. He then proceeds to show that acid drinks were not only preventive, but remedial in epidemic disorders of the bowels. Cases are related, in which not only were persons exempt from attacks of cholera raging around them, who drank freely of cider, but a case of severe cholera is also related, which yielded to the diluted juice of sour apples. He also refers to some established facts connected with the spread of epidemic dysen- tery in the army, showing the efficacy of vegetable acids in that disease. Urine.—Urine increased in quantity, and of a lighter color. (3.) Uterus.— Clinical Remarks.—In uterine haemorrhages the applica- tion of cold vinegar and water to the pubes is not only agreeable but tends considerably to arrest the discharge of blood. (11.) Larynx, Trachea, and Chest.—Irritation of the windpipe and chest • dry cough attended with oppressed respiration, succeeded by a moist cough with fever, increased difficulty of breathing, emaciation, nieht sweats, oedema of the feet, and legs, diarrhoea and death ; Klusemann reports three cases of haemoptysis caused by the use of Acetic-acid in from one to four weeks. (43.) Clinical Remarks.—Vinegar, much diluted with water, has often hect,ceLmghtTrSWeatS' bro»chial.haemorrhages, and diarrhoea from hectic fever Kopperstaetter, Oettmger and others have cured several ri-Kar^thc useof vinegar ind-hm *-« ^