Modern Medical Therapeutics; A Compendium of Recent Formula and Specific Therapeutical Directions from the Practice of Eminent Contemporary Physicians, American and Foreign (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: MODERN MEDICAL THERAPEUTICS. I. DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. The General Therapeutics of the Nervous System?Apoplexy and Cerebral ffypercemia?Cerebral Anaemia ? Chorea?Epilepsy? Headaches?Hypochondriasis or Melancholia?Insanity (Dementia)?Insomnia or Wakefulness ? Neural (jia? Neurasthenia? Paralysis ? Progressive Locomotor Ataxia (Posterior Spinal Sclerosis')?Sciatica?Spinal Irritation?Spasmodic Diseases? Tic Douleureux? Vertiyo. THE GENERAL THERAPEUTICS OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. The general resources at the command of the physician in treating diseases, are set forth as follows by DR. E. C. SEUUIN in a lecture in his Opera Minora, 1884: Means which increase the blood supply. The first is posture. By placing the patient on his back, the amount of blood in the spinal cord is increased. In this position, if the limbs and trunk are elevated, anaemia of the brain is counteracted. Compression of arteries is another important measure. Tourniquets may be applied to the limbs in extreme cases of cerebral anaemia. Compression of the carotids Note.?The subjects of Tetanus, Traumatic Neuralgia, Traumatic Paralysis, Rabies and Neuroses of the Skin, are treated of in Napheys' Surgical T/ierapeutict; Hysteria and the Special Nervous Affections of Women in the Therapeutic of Qynecology and Obstetrict, edited by Dr. Wm. B. Atkinson. was used to cut short epileptiform seizures supposed to be due tn bral hypcraemia. Of stimulants, alcohol is the best; food may a regarded as a stimulant. Paralyzing the vaso motor nerves, ducing enlargement of the arteries, is productive of hypenetnia arterial district, to which the nerves are distributed. Of means t duce this result, the most effectual is inhalation of amyl nitrit ij?v. In the epileptic aura it is frequently effi...