A treatise on apoplexy : with an appendix on softening of the brain, and paralysis. Based on Th. J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy.

  • Peters, John C. (John Charles), 1819-1893.
Date:
1853
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Credit: A treatise on apoplexy : with an appendix on softening of the brain, and paralysis. Based on Th. J. Rückert's Clinical experience in homoeopathy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    by the fourth day, the patient could be regarded as cured. —Gen. Horn. Jour., vol. 21, p. 233. Dr. Frank. 18. PHOSPHOR. General Remarks.—This remedy may be useful in some of those cases of Apoplexy occurring in debilitated subjects, in which Ammonia is generally relied upon. It is a powerful, diffusible stimulant; exciting the nervous, vascular and se- creting organs. It creates an agreeable warmth in the body, increases the frequency and fulness of the pulse, augments the heat of the skin, heightens the mental activity and mus- cular powers, and operates as a powerful sudorific and diuret- ic.—Pereira. It is homoeopathic to Apoplexy of the cerebel- lum, and that which arises from great excitement of the sex- ual organs (see page 33). It is also homoeopathic to Bilious Apoplexy (see page 47). Dierbach recommends it in the last stages of Typhus and Apoplexy, when the exhaustion of the body has reached its extremest degree, and speedy death is to be feared ; when the pulse is small, sunken and soft; the limbs cold; hiccough has set in, with difficult swallowing, coma, rattling respiration, cold, clammy sweats, and even when the death-struggle seems to have set in.—Peters. CASE 69.—A maiden, aged 21, with short and muscular frame, fell down suddenly in the yard, on a cold, misty morn- ing, and seemed dead. Symptoms. — Loss of consciousness; the powers of life seemed quite extinct; she was motionless, pulseless and breathless; her face was red, but the rest of her body cold; neither speaking, shaking, or rubbing her, produced any sign of consciousness, but she seemed to feel deep pricks with a needle in the soles of the feet. Treatment.—She was restored by the use of Phosphor 60. Dr. Schmid. CASE 70.—A woman, aged 75, who had been reduced by previous blood-letting and haemorrhage, was attacked with Nervous Apoplexy, and seemed in a hopeless condition.