A dictionary of treatment, or, Therapeutic index : including medical and surgical therapeutics / by William Whitla.

  • Whitla, William, 1851-1933.
Date:
1892
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    or other hremorrhage, Basham's Mixture (U.S.P.) or the following is very suitable :— Tinct. Ferri Perchlor. 3iv. AqucB A?nmon. Acet. Jiii. AqucB Chlorof. ad 3xii. misce. Fiat niistura. Sumat coch. mag. quater in die post cibos. If headache follows the administration of iron, Saline purgatives may enable the physician to continue its use, and he may give 5 grs. of the sulphate with 30 grs. of Sulphate of Magnesia in Crated water with advantage. The treatment of ansemia should not, however, be confined to the official preparations of iron if these do not prove soon satis- factory. The natural iron waters of Buxton, Kissingen, Altwasser, Berka, &c., may be tried with advantage, and various organic salts of iron, as the albuminates of iron, are believed to be more valuable than those in combination with the mineral or vegetable acids. The Citro-phosphate and the Sesquibromide and the Phosphated Pepsin have become fashionable. Cod Liver Oil, Lactophosphates, Malt Extract, sea bathing, bracing air, and sometimes a short sea voyage and rest from mental work, often work wonders. Massage is also a powerful remedy in improving nutrition and influencing metabolism, and water charged with Oxygen gas has found favour with some practitioners. Manganese Salts have been extolled as remedies for anaemia ; their utility is very doubtful. Inhalations of Oxygen are preferred to oxygenated water by some authorities. The treatment of pernicious anaemia with iron is generally most unsatisfactory, and the only medicine of any value is Arsenic, which should be freely given in doses beginning with 3 and ending with 15 minims of the liquor, diluted and given after meals 3 or 4 times a day. Where Arsenic has failed, sometimes Phosphorus in doses of to i\ gr. has given good results. Meyer bias recently reported a very striking success from washing out the stomach only once. All the accessory treatment as Valentine's Beef Juice, Pepsin, Malt Extract, Massage, Electricity, Oxygen, i&c, may be tried. Lately W. Hunter has made some exhaustive observations upon a case of this disease, believing that the condition is the result of a poison (a ptomaine) produced by organisms of a specific nature ivithin the gastro-intestinal canal. He recommends the use of .ntiseptic remedies, and selects Beta-naphthol as the least soluble ind one of the best germ destroyers. This is given in doses of 5 brains thrice daily suspended in mucilage. He has also discovered that the blood destruction is greatly diminished by the use of a farinaceous diet, and increased by nitrogenous food, hence the value bf starches and fat as a diet.