A handbook of diseases of women : including diseases of the bladder and urethra / by F. Winckel ; authorised translation edited by Theophilus Parvin.

Date:
1890
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    night, have sometimes been helpful when other treatment has failed. One of my patients, who was always better in the sum- mer, was sent to the south in the winter. Therefore the warm baths of Gastein, brine baths, according to circumstances iron baths may have a salutary effect; however, sea baths are to be recommended. [This subject is of such great practical importance that it has been thought well to add a few remarks in regard to treatment from Dr. Skene,* than whom no higher authority, in this country at least, can be quoted. He advises, in cases in which the vesi- cal irritability is due to abnormality of the urine, such as lithiasis, oxaluria and acidity, correcting these conditions; if to ascarides, anal fissure and that class of rectal troubles, removing the cause, when the result will usually disappear also. The usual soothing and demulcent drinks should be used. Oil of sandal wood has acted remarkably well in some of these cases. Bromide of sodium and tincture of nux vomica have been effectual in some. In the anesthetic variety, when the anesthesia is more or less marked, special or local and general stimulants should be em- ployed. Narcotics are hurtful here, as they are useful in the hyperesthetic class. Strychnia by the mouth, in suppository or hypodermically often produces good results, as does also quinine, whether the presence of malaria is suspected or not.] Op. cit.