New remedies : with formulae for their preparation and administration / By Robley Dunglison.

  • Dunglison, Robley, 1798-1869.
Date:
1856
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    affirm also, that the excessive expectorations of chronic bronchitis and phthisis are much influenced by its administration. In leucorrhcea they have found it highly useful as an injection, and Mr. Sampson1 gave it with good effect in gonorrhoea in the quantity of a, dram in the twenty-four hours, taken in twelve grain doses; and he places great confidence in its use in cases of albuminuria. Dr. Christison,2 too, had his attention turned to its apparent power of arresting the excretion of -albumen in the urine in Brighfs disease of the Kidney, and in a few instances it appeared to him to have that effect. In a paper on the use of gallic acid in the hemorrhagic diathesis, and in diseases cha- racterized by relaxed fibre or excessive secretion, Dr. Bayes3 thinks it is worthy of every confidence in active and passive hemorrhages; excessive secretions, as in pyrosis, serous diarrhoea, chronic bron- chitis, bronchial flux, profuse night-sweats, some forms of dysen- tery, and perhaps in diabetes; in atonic states generally, and especially in rhachitis, and as an adjunct to other means in piles, wounds, &c. His testimony, in regard to its excellent effects in pyrosis, is exceedingly strong. On the other hand, Dr. Gairdner4 is skeptical as to the re- puted power of gallic acid in hemorrhages, &c. He has employed it in large doses, not only in haemoptysis, but in the sweating of phthisis, in diarrhoea and in albuminuria; some of the cases of which he re- lates ; but he cannot satisfy himself, that it was unequivocally benefi- cial ; and he infers that in continuing to administer gallic acid on the principle, and in the way indicated by some of its advocates, we run some risk of substituting a very feeble, if not inert, remedial agent for other means more deserving of confidence. He remarks, that tannic acid has more effect as an astringent in haemoptysis; but Pro- fessor Simpson5 says, that it is difficult to reconcile this with the observation of Wohler, that tannic acid is converted into gallic acid in its passage through the circulation, and, consequently, before it reaches the lungs. MODE OF ADMINISTRATION. Gallic acid may be given in doses of from two grains to five or more, in the form of pill, repeated every two or three hours. Pilulse acidi gallici. Pills of gallic acid. R. Acid, gallic, gr. ij.—v. Confect. rosse q. s. ut fiat pilula. Injectio acidi gallici. Injection of (jailic acid. R. Acid, gallic. 9j. ad 5j. Aquas Oij. M. i London Lancet, Dec. 1st, 1840. 2 Op. cit. 3 Association Med. Journ., June 28,1854, and Ranking's Abstract, xx. 88, Amer. edit., Thilad. 1866. 4 Assoc. Med. Journ., Feb. 23,1855, and Ranking, op. cit. Amer. edit. xxi. 67. Thilad. 1855. 6 Assoc. Med. Journ., 1855, p. 18G, and Obstetric Memoirs, &c, loc. cit.