The Principles and Practice of Medicine (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: mustard plasters to the praecordia and to the calves. If the patient can swallow, active purgatives are serviceable. Where the power of deglutition is lost two or three drops of croton oil should be put on the tongue, and stimulating enemata of castor oil and turpentine should be thrown up the rectum. One grain of ergotine may be injected every half hour into the subcutaneous tissue, with the view of arresting further haemorrhage. If the uriue is retained it must be withdrawn by a catheter. The patient must be removed into a cool room, and should be placed on his side to avoid stertor. The head should be placed high on pillows, and the dress about the neck should be loosened. Should the patient recover from the attack the head should be shaved, and then covered with a bladder of ice or cold compresses. The bowels must of course be kept freely open, and the patient should be restricted to non-stimulating liquid diet for a long time. By this plan of treatment any tendency to inflammation (encephalitis) is lessened. If, notwithstanding all the precautions, encephalitis sets in, the inflammation must be combated by a free purge, application of a few leeches behind the ears, and other derivatives to the skin and kidneys. Blisters to the neck may be prescribed, but with great caution. The paralysis that so often remains after an attack may frequently be relieved by careful attention to hygiene. The patient should be placed under careful nursing. Change of air and warm baths are often beneficial. The induced current of electricity may be tried when all active symptoms have subsided. Mexingeal Apoplexy; H .smobbhages Of The Cebebbal Meu- IU; V N !..s; H.EMATOMA OF TUB DUBA MATED. Haematoma signifies a blood-tumour, or a collection of blood. It is rare in connection with the cer...