Eclectic Medical Journal (Volume 12) (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: In regard to treatment I shall say but little, aa it must be apparent that each individual case must be managed according to its own features and peculiarities. As tonics are indicated in most instances, aa well as nervines, I have been in the habit of giving the fcrri ferrocyanas in powder, both for the tonic of the metal and the anodyne properties of the acid, and on account of their happy combination I have come to value this preparation over all others of a similar nature. With this I am accustomed to combine the lupulin, and if there be any inflammation of the mucous lining of the bladder or the uretha, (and this stale of the parts is seldom wanting,) I also add cubcbapuJv. A powder composed of the above, with a little Turkey rhubarb, if there be costiveness of the bowels, will generally ensure a quiet night's rest, especially if the patient is careful to take a free sponging of the entire body and limbs with cold water previous to retiring to his couch. Of course I prohibit the use of feather beds, and an entire, absolute abstinence from indulgence in the habit, or in sexual intercourse.? This, with such rrn-difications, and such general treatment as the individual case may demand, will ultimately insure a recovery, except in those cases where the long indulgence has so far prostrated the energy and action of the system, that there can be no hope.?New Hampshire Journal of Medicine. Watcrbury, Vt., September, 1851. Iodine Injections In Ascites. By M. Boi.vet.?Xotices have from time to time appeared in the French journals upon the treatment of ascites by iodine injections, some of which we have transferred to our pages. The chief advocate of the practice is M. Boini-t, who has published a long memoir on the subject, (Gazette Medicate) the completion of which has recently...