Southern Medical and Surgical Journal - Georgia Regents University

——1859.] Diarrhoea of Infants at the Breast. 765case, to digestive derangement, or any other unfavorable symptom.The administration of this remedy has not proved beneficialin the other forms of mental diseases. Dr. Maresch administersatropine as follows: he dissolves a grain of it in five hundreddrops of rectified alcohol, and of this solution he gives from fiveto ten drops, (from ong-hundredth. to one thirtieth of a grain.)This dose is administered once, in the morning before breakfast,from which coffee, tea, and chocolate must be excluded, as thesesubstances interfere with its action. This is continued from sixtyto ninety days, without interruption, then is to be resumedafter an interval of from thirty to forty-five days. With women,there is no need to suspend its administration during menstruation,as it favors and augments this discharge. Barely doesatropine give rise to constipation, more frequently to diarrhoea,which necessitates, when it becomes severe, a suspension of itsadministration for some days. Translated from L Union Medicate,by s. E. c. American Med. Monti dy.Reflections upon the Use ofRaw Meat in the Colliquative Diarrhozaof Infants at the Breast. By Dr. J. ¥. Weisse, Director ofthe Hospital for Children, at St. Petersburg.JL period of seventeen years has elapsed since the attention ofmy confreres was called to the great value of this remedy inthis disease, but it did not come into general use until five yearslater, and after the publication of more extensive works upon thesubject. About this time, Dr. Behrend, of Berlin, addressed mea letter which contained the following passage: "You cannotimagine how much interest your communication upon the treatmentof the colliquative diarrhoea of infants at the breast, byraw meat, has excited ;we now use it exclusively in this disease."Soon after, Dr. Behrend inserted in the sixth volume of hisjournal, a letter from M. Marotte, Physician of the Central Officeof the Hospitals of Paris, addressed to Professor Trousseau, inwhich the author gave a theory to account for the results which.I had obtained. From this latter time, the treatment by rawmeat has been generally admitted everywhere, and its utility hasbecome incontestable.Among the numerous favorable reports recently published, Iwill cite that of Dr. Eichelberg: "In consequence of the shorttime which has passed since this treatment was recommended, Ihave by me only a limited number of observations, (twenty,)but all prove its efficiency. The cases in which infants refuseraw meat are very rare ; the majority swallow it with avidity.I have observed two cases which were very striking ; in these