The present treatment of disease : an outline of the medical practice of the day, based upon recent clinical cases / by Richard J. Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Richard J. (Richard James), 1834-1901.
Date:
1886
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Credit: The present treatment of disease : an outline of the medical practice of the day, based upon recent clinical cases / by Richard J. Dunglison. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of opium—bromide of potassium dissolved in aniseed or peppermint water, or a mixture of the bromide with oil of aniseed, mucilage and acacia, glycerine and water, of which a dose may be given when the colic comes on. It may be ordered without fear, knowing that it is perfectly safe and can do no mischief, which cannot be said of the various soothing combinations and carminatives in common use in the nursery, which usually contain laudanum or morphia. In another very young child, suffering from colic and indigestion, he said that infants in this condition of feeble digestion—apepsie, as the French call it— are, as a rule, greatly benefited by brandy, and they are about the only specimens of humanity that are. This child should have fifteen drops of the best Cognac every three or four hours, always giving it after aliment, or after nursing. In these cases of apepsia in infants, good is also accomplished by pepsin; it is one of the few instances where pepsin is beneficial. Every time it takes its aliment it should also have ten or fifteen grains of saccharated pepsin. These are the medicinal means required ; what are the hygienic ones? The child needs air, and it should be sent out in the open air and sunshine