Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

52 THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JOURNAL.
three or four drachms, menthol one drachm, or milk, yolk of egg, salt, flour. They
glycerine two onnces makes a mixture that should not be given oftener than every
will be of great benefit in orchitis and epi- eight hours. Ice bags should be applied to
didymitis. the epigastrium. Drugs that often prove
It relieves the pain, tenderness, and beneficial are ergot, adrenalin and chloride
swelling in eight to twelve hours, and will of calcium.
do it better than opium or its derivatives. Second Week— Rest in bed; hot poultices
The swelling will gradually subside, and to the epigastrium; warm milk; beef tea;
by the next day the patient will be feeling liquid peptonoids; albumen.
much better. Third Week—Morning and evening, while
Treatment is commenced by an active in the recumbent position, the patient should
cathartic to thoroughly clean out the bowels take a glass of alkaline mineral water: hot
and rectum and the weight of the scrotum poultices should be applied" to the stomach,
relieved by a suspensory bag. Hot fomen- The diet is the same as in the second week.
tations are applied to the scrotum. The If there is no tenderness or discomfort over
guaicol mixture is applied by saturating a the stomach the patient may sit up in bed
piece of absorbent cotton with it and the at the end of the thirh week,
whole scrotum lightly anointed every four Fourth Week—The patient mav be up in
hours until pain and tenderness subsides.
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should be bland, such as mashed potataes,
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Anti-TubercuIosis
^ J. Crasade J purees '^ of vegetables, tender, rare meats.
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PhlWsophobia.—Dr. T. Y. Hull believes ,,, , , ,„ , ,/j-- -/
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that one of the most powerful agencies for
the prevention of tuberculosis is compulsory
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registration. In cities where it has been Wbooping Cough.—Dr. S. A. Visouska
carried out for some time it has proven a
beiie^.gs t,,^t attention to diet is very impowerful
agent in awakening the public ....
mind, and of giving aid and instruction P"-"*^"^' ^^ vomiting is often a persistent
where it is- needed. It is not intended to and at times an alarming condition. Nutriannoy
and harass the sick, nor to make tious, easily digested food should be given
their burden more unbearable. It is not often and in small quantities, the best time
intended to hold the unfortunate victim up
to administer it being just before a parox-
before the public, and does not. It is simply
intended to give the Board of Health,
and the Board of Health only, the knowl-
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y^m. For the vomiting Dr. W. T. I^ilmer
of New York has advocated the use of an
edge of the existence of the disease, that in abdominal belt made of linen with a strip
case the attending physician does not as- of elastic webbing under each arm and fastsume
the responsibility of instructing his
^^^^^^ ^^, jaciug ^up the back. Besides the
patient m preventive measures, it may do ^ ; , , , ,
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so. The results in other cities have
of the
been
vomiting he claims that the
most beneficial. In these Southwestern number of paroxysms are reduced and corn-
cities to which so many tubercular people plications rendered less frequent bv this
flook, and in which the mortality from belt. An objection has been raised to the
tuberculosis is so appalling, some active , w ^i a t -^ •
i
.„=„.,,,-•, • -,,-0 ;,„„„, J T »i 1 c belt on the ground ot its causing hernia,
measures are imperative. In this work of
^"^ '^ doubtful, however, if this is true. In
popularizing registration, the nurses and
their association can render valunble assist- connection with this the author states that
*"'^^- last year he was called on to treat not less
than six cases of umbilical hernia within a
Gaillard's Southern Medicine, May, 1909. week, each case being the result of Pertussis.
Gastric Ulcer.—Dr. M. O. Burke says Some cases were already wearing different
that a patient who has hemorrhage should
^^^^^^ „f apparatus, but he used the Z. O.
be kept absolutely quiet for several davs— „ .
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at least one week.' The bedpan
adhesive strips and all made good recov-
should be
used for evacuations of the bowels and eries. The thought then occurred to him
urine, h'or twenty- four hours no food should that this ver\' troublesome complication
be administered by the mouth, not even ice might be prevented by the application of
water, hor twentv-four or forty-eieht hours