Numerous cases illustrative of the efficacy of the hydrocyanic or prussic acid in affections of the stomach : with a report upon its powers in pectoral and other diseases in which it has been already recommended: and some facts respecting the necessity of varying the doses of medicines according to circumstances, and the use of opium in diabetes.

  • Elliotson, John, 1791-1868.
Date:
1820
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Credit: Numerous cases illustrative of the efficacy of the hydrocyanic or prussic acid in affections of the stomach : with a report upon its powers in pectoral and other diseases in which it has been already recommended: and some facts respecting the necessity of varying the doses of medicines according to circumstances, and the use of opium in diabetes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    positively of causing the appearance oi uric acid, is certain. The utility of the Pulv. Ipecac. C. seems to arise entirely from it, for whatever good that produces is invariably continued by exhibiting Opium alone. As to sweating. Opium generally occasions it in dia- betes, and as actively as the P. Ip. C. The effect of bleeding, animal diet, and Opium, in conjunction, deserves to be examined. P. S. Since the 51st page was printed, a case of Tetanus has occurred within my own knowledge, in which no signs of inflammation were visible in the spinal marrow, nor indeed any where else. Although, therefore, this part has been recently as well as formerly disco- vered in several instances inflamed, the proximate cause of Tetanus cannot be inflammation of the spinal marrow, and the frequent success of treating the dis- ease with large quantities of narcotics and stimulants, to the total exclusion of evacuants, and the small suc- icess of treating the disease with bleeding, &c. are no longer inexplicable. The importance of looking for increased determina- tion of blood to particular organs in a great variety of diseases was first pointed out by Dr. Parry above thirty years ago,* and with few are lancets, cupping-glasses, band leeches, in greater requisition than with myself. * Memoirs of the Medical Society of London, vol. iii. On the efforts of ^ ■compression of the arteries in various diseases, and particularly in those of the ■head, with hints towards a new mode of treating nervous disorders. 1