Homoeopathic domestic medicine / by J. Laurie ; arranged as a practical work for students, containing a glossary of medical terms.

  • Laurie, Joseph, -1865.
Date:
1850
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    has become so rapidly and seriously affected, as to have as- sumed a gangrenous aspect. (See Ulcerated sore throat.) When the disease, in cases of a bad type, takes on a nervous or even a putrid character, with extreme offensiveness of all the excretions, and hemorrhage from the nose, mouth, &c, the medicines mentioned under fevers of the said description, (which see, p. 32,) must here also be employed. Cuprum aceticum and Kreosote have been found useful in some of these almost hopeless but fortunately somewhat rare cases ; the former particularly, when the efflorescence appears and disappears suddenly in the course of the disease.* Administration. Six globules of the remedy indicated, at the potency mentioned, may be dissolved in about an ounce of water, and one dessert-spoonful administered every three, four, or six hours, according to the urgency of the case. The remedies required for the occasional sequelae, are the same as those enumerated at the conclusion of the chapter on Scarlatina. MEASLES. Rubeola. This disease generally reigns as an infectious epidemic, and for the most part confines its attack to children, in which cases it is seldom, when properly treated, either severe or dangerous ; when it occurs in adults, it generally assumes a more critical character. It rarely attacks an individual a second time. Measles is not to be so much dreaded for itself, as for the deleterious consequences it, under an improper mode of treat- ment, frequently entails, or, to use the technical term, the' dregs it leaves after it, in many constitutions developing an inherent disposition to consumption. * Rhus and Sulphur may also be mentioned as having been found use- ful in this disorder; the former when the exanthema degenerated into a species of vesicular erysipelas, attended with lethargy, great thirst, and strangury ; and the latter in cases where Belladonna had failed to effect all that could be expected. In the event of repercussion of the eruption, Bryonia, Phosphorus, Sulphur, and Cuprum aceticum, have been recom- mended as the most useful.