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. 1860 Excerpt: ...catamenia. He found the medicine most useful in cases of torpor of the system, or where excessive action had previously been reduced by depletion, and he attributed its curative effects to the irritation which it occasions in the bladder and rectum and through them in the adjacent pelvic viscera. He directed the ...
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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. 1860 Excerpt: ...catamenia. He found the medicine most useful in cases of torpor of the system, or where excessive action had previously been reduced by depletion, and he attributed its curative effects to the irritation which it occasions in the bladder and rectum and through them in the adjacent pelvic viscera. He directed the medicine in doses at first of fifteen drops three times a day, and gradually increased the quantity to 30 or 40 drops at each dose. When the sexual propensity isfeeble, or quite suspended, particularly as a result of long-continued and passive seminal emissions, the cautious use of cantharides has sometimes succeeded in curing the infirmity. Yet the practice is not without danger, for it is ascertained that the males of several species of quadrupeds become diseased when cantharides are administered to them for the purpose of stimulating the sexual powers.' A large number of authorities assert the power of cantharides to cure hydrophobic, and their assertions have been undeservedly discredited by _those who supposed the disease just named to be always identical with rabies canina. Hydrophobia is, indeed, an almost con ' System der Arzneim., iii. 107. ' Am. Med. Recorder, ii. 37. ' Mann and Dr: Lass, op. cit., iv. 312. stant symptom of rabies, but it is not uniformly so. It occurs quite as frequently in various hysterical, nervous, febrile, and organic affections.' The recorded cures of this affection by cantharides do not throw much light upon the nature of those forms of disease to which the remedy is applicable. The greater number of writers, who, like Wichmann and Rust, have vaunted the anti-hydrophobic powers of cantharides, found their favorable opinion, so far as canine hydrophobia is concerned, upon the prophylactic vir...
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Fair. No Jacket. 8vo. 976 pages. Well used, copy, though complete and with fairly clean contents. Cloth covers are rubbed and worn at spine ends and corners. There is a remnant of a library spine label, though there are no other library markings. Gilt lettering on spine remains good. Hinges (internal) are broke, and covers are starting to loosen from text block. Book plate on front paste down. Inked name and date at top of title page. Blank front fly leaf is detached. Rear end leaves are loosened and there are paper clippings glued to rear free end page.