This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...a day, "blood must be drawn the next day, and the catharsis repeated; and so bleeding and purging must alternate until the third or fourth time, provided only there be sufficient time between the alternate evacuations to ensure the patient against danger,"--danger, evidently, of sinking from exhaustion. In like manner ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1861 Excerpt: ...a day, "blood must be drawn the next day, and the catharsis repeated; and so bleeding and purging must alternate until the third or fourth time, provided only there be sufficient time between the alternate evacuations to ensure the patient against danger,"--danger, evidently, of sinking from exhaustion. In like manner he bled to this point in chorea! In ophthalmia, "bleed to ten ounces; if the disease do not yield, repeat the venesection once or twice." In dysentery, diarrhoea and gripes, "bleed at once." In bilious colic, "bleed freely. If the disease have arisen from an over-free use of the fruits of the season, or from any other imprudence in food, the stomach must be washed out at once by a large draught of milk and beer. After this, an anodyne must be given. The next day a vein must be opened."2 Surely a most sanguinary treatment of a very simple disorder! In hysterical colic, "if the patient be of a sanguine temperament, and it be the first attack, blood may be taken 1 Vol. II., p. 103. Ibid., p. 258. from the arm before the emetic is given." "Clavus hystericus is similarly treated." In fluor albus, "bleed from the arm to eight ounces." In hcemorrhoids, "bleed to ten ounces from the arm." Hooping cough "is only subdued by bleeding and repeated purging, and it is a disease otherwise most obstinate and incurable." For bleeding from the nose, "bleed frequently." In vomiting and spitting of blood, "bleed from the right arm to ten ounces. Next morning, give the common purgative potion. Bleed, as occasion requires, once, twice, or thrice, at the intervals of a few days." On the treatment of common Mania, he says: "In young patients, bleed from ...
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Fair. x, [2], 491 p. ill., ports. Publisher's blue cloth. Gilt spine. Binding shot, text block in two pieces with a section of pages loose. Chipping and loss to head and tail of spine. Hinges cracked. Perforated stamp to title page. Sold with all faults.
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