This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... Persons who use the water of chalybeate springs have been known to become affected with fluent piles; hence we recommend iron for Fluent Piles, with much pressing in the rectum, and a general cachectic, debilitated appearance of the patient, full and hard, jerking, rather slow pulse, constipation ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... Persons who use the water of chalybeate springs have been known to become affected with fluent piles; hence we recommend iron for Fluent Piles, with much pressing in the rectum, and a general cachectic, debilitated appearance of the patient, full and hard, jerking, rather slow pulse, constipation alternating with diarrhoea. URINARY GROUP. You recollect the remarkable effects which iron produced in most of the provers who subjected themselves to the action of this agent: ticklinjj in the urethra, violent and constant urrin# to urinate, throbbing in the external terminal portion of the urethra, slimy sediment in the urine. We shall find iron indicated in what is termed Catarrh of the bladder or blennorrhoea of the bladder, in the case of scrofulous, spongy individuals. Even in Gleet, iron may prove useful to patients with such torpid, spongy constitutions. Phthisis or Colliquation of the urinary mucoiis membrane, where the patient wastes away under the purulent drain constantly going on from an ulcer situated in the urethra, with tickling and constant urging to urine, may require iron. We shall find iron useful in Enuresis of scrofulous and debilitated individuals. Also in Enuresis nocturna of children with scrofulous, leucophlegmatic constitutions, who are troubled with worms, large bowels, etc. In such affections we shall find iron particularly useful in the case of girls. SEXUAL GROUP. In this range, iron has been considered an invaluable agent by physicians of all ages and nations. The primary effect of large doses of iron upon the sexual organs seems to be to cause a sort of plethora in these parts, characterized by erections and nocturnal emissions. This surexcitation of the sexual organs may become so troublesome as to require...
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