Instances of some of the rarer varieties of morbid growths swellings, &c. connected with the organs contained within the abdominal cavity.

  • John Ogle
Date:
[cbetween 1800 and 1899?]
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Credit: Instances of some of the rarer varieties of morbid growths swellings, &c. connected with the organs contained within the abdominal cavity. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    second proposition, thus : Men are more liable to he attached hyj Dysentery than women. I heard Professor Christison say many years ago, at tlie bedside : Gentlemen, the physician's difficulty is to make out the disease, when that is discovered there is no doubt as to the treatment. How far time has modified the views of that learned toxicolo^ist we cannot say, but his words may yet possess an amtmnt of truth they did not when uttered. It will be seen that I have in four cases administered Homoeopathic remedies, Globules of Mercurius Corrosivus and Acidum Nitricum, were given for some days without any sensible effect. The propriety of this proceeding may be called in question, but it must be remem- bered that we are constantly urged to a trial, and the results of this mode of treatment have been so eulogised, that I considered it perfectly justifiable. In the 13th edition of the Homoeoimtliic Domestic Medicine, by Joseph Laurie, MD, &e., (Ic. page 212, it is said: Mercurius Corrosivus may be considered to be the most important of all the Homxopathic remedies in Dysentery, but especially when the sub- joined symptoms are present, it may generally be considered specific to the case; in the red dysentery or bloody flux, when we find severe straining, with evacuations merely of a little mucus, some limes succeeded by or accompanied with the protrusion of a portion of the intestine and increased discharge of pure blood, &c. The tenesmus continued so distressing that I did not feel at liberty to continue treatment which gave no relief; I therefore resorted to supposilories of domestic soap and opium, with the usual happy effect. Every precaution was adopted, the treatment was undertaken in good faith, and three of the four did not know what was being administered. I have long abandoned the use of enemata of all kinds ; I found the irritation produced in my own case so distressing, and believed that their action was so local, that they presented no advantage over suppositories, which will be found to answer all that can be said in their favour. 1 generally direct one to be introduced after every motion, and regulate the strength to the age. A reference to the synopsis will show that the latter half have all been treated by Sulphuric Acid and Tincture of Opium, occasional suppositories when tenesmus existed, repose, and alcohol from the first Whatever success then may have attended a treatment by mercurials, it must be admitted, that there were no failures among these, and that if only the result be equal, there can be no doubt as to the safest and most agreeable plan. The mildest action of the mineral on the S}stem is attended with unpleasantness, while idiosyncrasy of constitution may at any time exhibit severe ptyalism from small doses, I'he time approaches when this poison in every form will be banished from our prescriptions, not only in acute dysen- tery, but in all other acute and chronic diseases. Advanced minds have already done so, the routinists must follow or lose their patients.
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