On the treatment of the night-sweating of phthisis. XIII. Agaric / by William Murrell.

  • Murrell, William, 1853-1912.
Date:
1882
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Credit: On the treatment of the night-sweating of phthisis. XIII. Agaric / by William Murrell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE PRACTITIONER. NOVEMBER, 1882. #riigmal Cnmmmtrcaticms. r THE TREATMENT OF THE NIGHT-SWEATING OF PHTHISIS. , l. ‘ BY WILLIAM MURRELL, M.D., M.R.C.P., urcr on Materia Medica and. Therapeutics at the Westminster Hospital ; Assistant-Physician to the Royal Hospital for Diseases of the Chest. (Continued from vol. xxv. p. 257.) XIII. Agaric. Agaric is meant the Agaric of the larch or white agaric, letimes called the purging agaric. It is a fungus, and is wn botanically as Agctricus laricis, Boletus laricis and yporus officinalis. It is the Agaric blanc or Agaric purgatif •Tench writers, and the Ldrchenschwcinn of the Germans. Lgaric has been in use in the treatment of the night-sweating phthisis for over a century. Dahen was probably its oducer. “I was consulted,” he says,1 “in the month of gust 1767 by a monk who as the result of a neglected iro-pneumonia suffered from a severe cough which was piently accompanied by profuse haemoptysis. In spite nuch treatment he became very weak, and this added to sweating reduced him to a very critical condition. The linistration of bark lowered the fever, but had no effect 1 Dahen, Ratio Mcdcndi.