Chloride of ammonium : a specific therapeutic agent in the treatment of hepatitis and abscess of the liver, with illustrative cases / by William Stewart.

  • Stewart, William (Surgeon)
Date:
1870
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    A SPECIFIC IN HEPATITIS AND HEPATIC ABSCESS. Hepatitis is a disease, which is the cause of much sickness, iuvahdiug, and mortaUty, among the European forces in India, and its tendency to eventuate in hepatic abscess, renders it one of the most formidable with which the practitioner in this country, has to contend. The treatment of suppurative inflammation of the hver is acknow- ledged on all hands to be very unsatisfactory; mercury is not only useless, but pernicious, and we search in vain among the numerous text books, for a therapeutic agent of sufficient efficacy to combat the disease. Such being the case, I am induced to bring to the notice of the profession, a remedy which has 'proved of signal value in my hands, in the numer- ous cases in which it has been employed by me, and I may add, also, by others who have witnessed its remai'kable success, and have in consequence been induced to give it a trial. Chloride of Ammonium has been for a long time used by the Germans in frcrpicntly repeated small doses in hepatitis, and both the Germans and French, esteem it a valuable remedy in many