A manual of hypodermatic medication : the treatment of diseases by the hypodermatic method. / by Roberts Bartholow.

Date:
1882
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    bronchial mucous membrane to a slight extent, also by the skin, but chiefly by the kidneys. If the injections have been practised frequently and in considerable quantity, the characteristic changes in the appearance and reaction of the urine are observed. A slight smoky appearance may be disregarded, but if the urine becomes persistently blackish, the administration should be lessened or suspended. Therapy.—Important results have been ob- tained from the subcutaneous and parenchyma- tous injection of carbolic acid. The original conception suggesting its employment was the supposed relation of certain morbific ferments to diseased processes. Influenced by these notions, Kunze,* of Halle, employed it in these maladies (Infectionskrankheiten), notably in erysipelas, and, as it proved, with excellent results. Some ex- perience of my own is quite confirmatory. By injecting five minims of a two per cent, solution just at the margin of the inflammation, and at several points, two or three times a day, a very favorable influence on the case is at once appa- rent. Kunze found the same practice very bene- ficial in pleuro-pneumonia. The injections had the effect to lower the temperature and the pulse- rate. Aufrechtf has repeated the same practice and confirmed the results of Kunze. The practice has been greatly extended by