Modern therapeutics of the diseases of childrenD.G. Brinton, 1885 - 330 pages |
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Page 28 - For this reason, instead of employing starch, gum, gelatine, sugar, etc., the use of a natural cereal extractive, containing saccharine and gummy matters and soluble albuminoids as well, such as our great and inspired teacher Liebig himself advocated, is in accordance with the developments of science since his time.
Page 246 - Give from half to a whole tables poonful, in a little water, every one or two hours, according to the age of the patient and the urgency of the symptoms.
Page 250 - I have had several opportunities of testing its efficacy in some of the worst cases I have ever seen, during the epidemic which has been rife in this town (Cupar Fife) for the last two months, and I am bound to say that, of all remedial measures in this disease, it is, in my opinion, the most reliable. My treatment is as follows : "The moment the throat begins to become affected, I administer to a child, say of about six years of age...
Page 125 - The laudanum prevents an uneasy bruised feeling,which is often complained of after the kneading, and in irritable subjects is apt to induce restlessness and insomnia. Galvanic excitement of contraction in the paralyzed muscles is often decidedly useful ; but it is a measure which requires to be employed with moderation and at intervals of about twentyfour hours. If resorted to too early, or too freely, it exhausts the nervous power of the affected muscles.
Page 121 - May 7, 1881, invites the attention of the profession to the topical use of fresh lemon juice as a most efficient means for the removal of membrane from the throat, tonsils, etc., in diphtheria. In his hands (and he has heard several of his professional brethren say the same) it has proved by far the best agent he has yet tried for the purpose. He applies the juice of the lemon, by means of a camel's hair probang, to the affected parts, every two or three hours, and in eighteen cases on which he has...
Page 242 - ... orphans' asylums, and similar institutions, and among the families of the poor; whenever, in a word, it is difficult to place the healthy at a distance from the sick.
Page 61 - M. One teaspoonful every two or three hours to an infant one year old. To this mixture an astringent may be added, as tincture of catechu or kino. It should be borne in mind, however, that astringents are less tolerated by an irritable stomach than opium or chalk. When they are vomited, therefore, they should be discontinued, even in cases in which they would doubtless be serviceable if the stomach were retentive. By means of the opiate and astringents, if they be retained, the...
Page 242 - ... against scarlatina, are so far proven that it becomes the duty of practitioners to invoke their aid whenever the disease breaks out in a locality where there are persons liable to the contagion...
Page 119 - ... in the proportion of two parts of the former to one of the latter, and expressible by the symbol H2O.
Page 124 - Iron is particularly indicated in diphtheritic paralysis, as the patients are always anaemic. There are few cases in which its administration does not prove itself in an obvious manner to be useful in a high degree. Sometimes it is only borne in very small doses. Nux vomica, either in the form of extract or the liquor strychnia?