The Retrospect Of Medicine Vol 98

Author : William Braithwaite
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334525698
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 81 written by William Braithwaite and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 81: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences; January-June, 1880 N euralgia. - Aconitia. - Aconitia is perfectly successful in such forms of facial neuralgia as are not correlated with other lesions, which are not intermittent, and which have not a well marked recurrence; in other words, in those forms to which M. Gubler has applied the term congestive, and which are most frequently caused by exposure to cold. In such cases aconite produces a rapid cure within two or three days. Dr. Culmont has even seen a case Of facial neuralgia of seven days' standing, in which there was no well marked periodicity, and which had resisted sulphate of quinine, yield instantaneously and permanently to a quarter of a milligram of nitrate of aconite. The results are more marked and rapid in cases of recent neuralgia than in those Of long standing. Examples are quoted, however, in which the affection had lasted for periods of one month, two months, and even five years, but which had yet been cured, the first on the seventh day, the second on the third, and the last in three weeks. Aconitia has also a distinct effect in secondary neuralgia, as, for example, in dental caries, otitis, paraplegia, &c. Acute rheumatic arthritis may be success fully treated with aconitia. On account of the energetic action of the remedy the susceptibility Of the patient should be tested by administering, in the first place, three pills daily, each containing a fifth of a milligram of crystallised aconitia in addition to five centigrams of pure quinine; one in the morning, one at midday, and one in the evening. If no alleviation of the pain is experienced on the first day, the dose may be cautiously augmented by a pill per diem, until a maximum dose of six in the course of twenty-four hours is attained, and in the majority of cases it will not be necessary to overstep this limit. (dr. Oulmont, p. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.