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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...curing his malady, --I have seen epileptics discoloured by the medicine, and yet suffering as severely as ever from their convulsions. Unfortunately the nature of the disease requires a long continuance of treatment, and therefore a medicine must be preferred which shall, at least, not inflict so ...
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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. 1882 edition. Excerpt: ...curing his malady, --I have seen epileptics discoloured by the medicine, and yet suffering as severely as ever from their convulsions. Unfortunately the nature of the disease requires a long continuance of treatment, and therefore a medicine must be preferred which shall, at least, not inflict so visible an injury, and we need seldom prescribe the silver salt until a fair trial has been made of bromides, of belladonna, etc. If, however, it be decided upon, then a purgative should be given at tlio commencement of, and occasionally during treatment; the remedy should be omitted for a few days at intervals, and the gums should be carefully watched for signs of systemic saturation. The use of nitrate for epilepsy in children has been objected to by Lcebenstein, but I have seen it of service in chronic cases. Brenner recommends the chloride in infantile convulsions, and also in the brain-affections of typhus. Niemann found advantage from the ammonio-chloride in epilepsy and melancholia. Paralysis--Ataxia.--We cannot speak with any confidence of the power of silver compounds to relieve serious or chronic cases of this kind, though there are not wanting records of improvement, more or less marked, obtained under their use. Wunderlich reported seven cases of ataxy arrested in progress under 5-gr. doses, two or three times daily; whilst Charcot and Vulpian related five cases that had lasted respectively two, four, five, and two of them fifteen years. A pill containing to f gr. of nitrate was given daily for from thirty-five to sixty days, and in every case in the course of a week, improvement commenced as to sensibility, power of placing the limbs, as to sight and especially as to lessening of pain (Memoire sur le Nitrate, Bull, de Therap., 1862)...
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Good. 2 vols. Edges slightly rubbed. Heel of spine to vol.2 slightly rubbed. 1sts of edition edited and adapted to the U.S. Pharmacopaeia by Laurence Johnson.
