The Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic Volume 55 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...that the end is not far off. When the paroxysms of fever become severe, it is the custom, as per authority, to order quinine for its arrest, but with very unsatisfactory results. Ten, or as Bartholow recommends, twenty grain doses, may put a stop to it for a day or two, but rarely for a lengthened period. Then the effects of such large doses are more or less distressing, besides interfering for a time with the appetite, digestion, rest and sleep. The treatment of the accompanying and distressing night sweats has called forth a host of remedies, their very number indicating their inefficiency. Atropia is perhaps the best, though some of its collateral effects are not only undesirable but harmful. Having tried all these methods of treating the tubercular pyrexia, with very unsatisfactory results, not only in promoting the patient's welfare, enhancing his comfort, and prolonging his days, as well as in striving to cure the disease under hopeful circumstances, I enter exceptions to the above methods, and think I am able to offer a better, plan. In the first place, the ordinary method of treating the tuberculous zymosis adds to the already marked disturbance of systemic physiological function; it is usually nauseating, it is unsatisfactory, and it fails to remove what should be deemed the most urgent, debilitating and distressing factor of the disease, to wit, the daily febrile zymosis. Scarcely has the system begun to recover from the effects of one paroxysm of it than another is on, there being only two or three hours of recruiting.nterval between them. The manifestations of this febrile process are readily detected by a thermometer curve before the grossness of their severity commands attention. Yet they are passed over as of no special therapeutical signific...