The modern treatment of diseases of the heart : a manual of clinical therapeutics / by Prof. Dujardin-Beaumetz ; translated from the fourth French edition by E.P. Hurd.

Date:
1887
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Credit: The modern treatment of diseases of the heart : a manual of clinical therapeutics / by Prof. Dujardin-Beaumetz ; translated from the fourth French edition by E.P. Hurd. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    air tract, “head colds,” etc., while the latter were at- tributable in many instances to sea-bathing. Treatment.—It is of the greatest importance to prevent the formation of pus in these cases, and this object was accomplished in many instances. Calcium sulphide was given in fa to fa gr. doses every two hours in adults, and in children, usually in smaller doses. Pain in the more decided cases, whether de- pendent upon the neuralgic condition of the tympanic plexus, from reflex nervous sympathy, or upon disten- sion of the tympanic cavity from accumulated secre- tions, was relieved with tincture of aconite, pulsatilla, or gelsemium (see appendix), remedies having a marked controlling influence over the fifth pair of nerves and their connections. A large number of these cases terminated in resolution, but it is probable that in some of them after passing from under obser- vation, suppuration subsequently occurred. Chronic Catarrhal Inflammation of the Middle-ear.—555 Cases. The frequency and pre- valence of head catarrh is well known, and the inti- mate association existing between the region involved by this disease and the middle-ear tract, should be kept in mind. For, as is well known, it is by the gradual progress of this affection, with its acute ex- acerbations, that destructive changes in the transmitting mechanism of the hearing organ are produced. In children, especially, the vascular activity at the age of puberty, overwork, and foul air in schools, with conse-