The London Medical Gazette Vol 2

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Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780243062843
Total Pages : 986 pages
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Download or read book The London Medical Gazette, Vol. 20 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The London Medical Gazette, Vol. 20: Being a Weekly Journal of Medicine and the Collateral Sciences; (Vol II for the Session 1836-37) Except at the commencement, I am not an advocate for the use of emetics in fever. They fail in checking the disease, and they are apt to be followed by considerable debility of the stomach and general sys tem, - states which it would be better to avoid where the patient has to run through the course of a long and exhausting dis ease. If called to acase of fever in which you cannot give an emetic, there are two or three other remedial agents you may employ to moderate the feverish excite ment, and render the disease milder and more manageable during its progress. One of these is James's powder, with which you may combine blue pill or hydrargyrum cum creta, if necessary, giving two 0r three grains Of each every third or fourth hour, according to circum stances. Another remedy, which many are in the habit of using, particularly where the fever is accompanied with symp toms of inflammatory excitement, is a weak solution of tartar emetic. Two grains of tartar emetic may be dissolved in' a' pint of barley-water; and of this mixture a table-spoonful may be taken every second hour.' These are good and useful remedies in the first stage of fever they moderate the feverish excitement, act gently on the bowels, and produce more or less diaphoresis. 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.