The new handbook of dosimetric therapeutics, or, The treatment of diseases by simple remedies : including symptomatology, thermometry and uroscopy, with synoptical tables epitomising important clinical cases : a work particularly designed for practitioners / by Ad. Burggraeve ; tr. from the French, and ed. by Henry Arthur Allbutt.

  • Burggraeve, Ad. (Adolphe), 1806-1902.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The new handbook of dosimetric therapeutics, or, The treatment of diseases by simple remedies : including symptomatology, thermometry and uroscopy, with synoptical tables epitomising important clinical cases : a work particularly designed for practitioners / by Ad. Burggraeve ; tr. from the French, and ed. by Henry Arthur Allbutt. 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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    For the same reason, we give aconitine to prevent absorptive fever : — Five or six granules a day. After the operation, the patient must be sustained by albuminous foods and wine, so as to prevent impoverishment of the blood and intravascular void, which would have the effect of forwarding the re-absorption of ichorous matters. This, therefore, is quite different from the arbitrary regimen which some surgeons extol. In order to stimulate digestion, quassine, and even arseniate of strychnine must be given : — Three to four granules a day, at meal times. By this treatment, the blood and the tissues are kept up to the desired degree of tone, and reabsorption, or ralher infiltra- tion, either intra or extravascular, is prevented. At the least appearance of shivering or horripilation, hydro- ferrocyanate or arseniate of quinine should be administered, sometimes the two together, especially when a very intense poisoning is foreseen : — A granule of each every half-hour. The nature of septicaemia may now be considered as deter- mined. It is not laudable pus which produces fever, but the ichorous matter or septic virus which vitiates the blood and depresses the vitality. Therefore, the wounded must not be debilitated but strengthened. In a word, their vitality must be sustained. Fixed or diffusible stimulants are totally unable of themselves to produce such a result. Virginian serpentary irritates the digestive mucous membrane, and cinchona tans itt and increases the thirst and dryness of the tongue. Thus, the elimination of the ichorous virus is prevented, for the diarrhoea in that case arises solely from indigestion. The dosimetric granules must, therefore, be had recourse to, for these being very soluble, are easily absorbed, and do not produce any irritation or additional trouble.