Domestic medicine : a treatise on the practice of medicine, adapted to the reformed system, comprising a materia medica / by J. Kost.

  • Kost, J., 1819-1904.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Domestic medicine : a treatise on the practice of medicine, adapted to the reformed system, comprising a materia medica / by J. Kost. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Eberle speaks of it as follows:— The capsicum appears to be a particularly valuable exciting remedy in this [malignant] variety of the disease. This article was first employed in malignant scarlatina, by Dr. Stephens, in a very fatal epidemic which prevailed at St. Christo- pher's, (West Indies,) in 1787, and it has since received the decided approbation of many eminent practitioners. The manner of employing it is as follows : take two table spoonfuls of small red pepper, or three tea spoon- fuls of common cayenne pepper, and two table spoon- fuls of fine salt; beat them into a paste, and pour upon them half a pint of boiling water; this is to be strained, and half a pint of good vinegar added to it. Of this liquor, when cold, a table spoonful is to be taken every half hour by an adult, and the throat should be fre- quently gargled with it. Stephens asserts that he em- ployed this remedy in about four hundred cases, and with surprising success. The ulcers in the fauces soon cast off their sloughs and commenced to heal, a genial pleasant warmth was diffused throughout the whole system, and the vital powers speedily resumed a more active condition. The compound tincture of myrrh, or Thomson's No. 6, is also very good in putrid sore throat. OP INFLAMMATION. The general principles involved in the foregoing doctrines of fever, are the fundamentals, also, of the present theory of inflammation. The essential phenomena of fever and inflammation differ none in their primary manifestations, excepting that the one is local and the other general in its action. The term inflammation is derived from in, within, and jUunma, flame, fire, combustion; because of the burning pain attending it, and the appearance of the parts affected therewith, the chief characteristics being heat, redness, pain, excitement, and swelling.