Surgery two hundred years ago.

Date:
[1895]
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Credit: Surgery two hundred years ago. 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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    effort is productive of dyspnoea with cardiac palpitation, it is indicated. The pain of locomotor ataxia yields to treatment with Antikamnia in a remarkable degree, its analgesic power being of a peculiar kind, in that it will relieve painful affections due to pathological conditions of the peripheral nerves, as neuritis, etc.; also lumbago, sciatica, and myalgia. In chronic catarrh of the stomach, with its often accompanying headaches, in cardiac dropsy, and in ascites, this derivative is of decided benefit. Antikamnia in the adynamia of typhus and typhoid fevers, as well as pneumonia, is of great value, and in many cases takes the place of alcohol. Its effect is perhaps not entirely on the ner- vous system, but has the power to diminish the febrile waste of nitrogenous tissues, as shown in the large discharge of urea. As an antiseptic and antipyretic and anti-periodic, Antikamnia is notoriously good, nothing better. It is especially beneficial in spasmodic asthenia, in hay fever, in whooping cough, in headaches, particularly of the nervous variety, also that from disorders of the digestive organs, or from the various neuroses. In the treatment of La Grippe and its troublesome sequelae, no other drug has given so much satisfaction. ' Angina pectoris, following or coming on during an attack of influenza, often alternates with an attack of asthma. Sometimes the angina pectoris is accompanied with a tired feeling in the arms, with pain. This condition is relieved by Antikamnia. In treating pneumonia, in addition to lowering of the temperature, we want something to act as an analgesic. Antikamnia is both antipyretic and analgesic, and thus reduces the fever, relieves the pain, and quiets the restlessness so often seen. In painful affections of the testicles and joints and in coxalgia, also in relieving the nocturnal pain in the tibia of syphilitic patients, it gives satisfactory results. When pain is the prominent symptom, it is a desideratum, as its province is relief of pain in any and every form. And best of all, there is no danger of morphinism, no nausea or malaise so common with opium.