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:784 Dk. 0. C. Gibbs. Summary. [November,Misce et S. Take a tea-spoonful every three hours. This constitutionaltreatment I have found very successful in my hands,and desire nothing better."This corresponds very nearly to the treatment we have foundvery serviceable. We are, however, in the habit of prescribingthe tincture of iron in a little larger doses, say twenty dropsevery three hours; and the quinine in combination with Dover'sPowders, from one to two grains of the former to five ofthe latter, every four or six hours.A Case of Epilepsy Cured.—In the same journal for August20th, Dr. S. N. Pierce, of Cedar Falls, Iowa, reports a case ofepilepsy, cured under treatment in compliance with the followingprescriptionty.—Ext. stramonii." conii, aid gr. xv.Strychnia, (cry.,) gr. ij.Argent, nitr., Bij.et div. in pil. No. xxx."Of these," he says, " I gave three a day. This course waspursued perseveringly, the amount of the strychnia and nitrateof silver being slowly increased, until I found the disease graduallyyielding to its influence. I now have the satisfaction offeeling that the disease is subdued." Patients have recoveredin cases of epilepsy under a variety of treatment that subsequentexperience has proved to be of non-effect.One case is quite too limited to judge of the effects of anymedicines. The case of Dr. Pierce loses in interest when it isremembered that the improvement at the time of the report wasof but five weeks' duration.Mental Influence on the Products of Conception.—In the Medicaland Surgical Reporter for August 27th, Dr. Ziegler, of Philadelphia,reports a case of a mother, who, in the early weeks ofpregnancy, was badly frightened by what she supposed to beone of her children cutting off the hand of another. She wasconfined at full time of a child minus the right hand—the radiusand ulna terminating abruptly in a stump at the wrist. Theeditor adds that, four years since, he saw a woman delivered ofa child with a deformed nose, which was in exact resemblanceto that of an unfortunate girl's who lived next door, who had acancer of the nose.The first case was doubtless a case of spontaneous intra-uterineamputation, caused by the cord being wound around thewrist. The second was doubtless a case of incomplete development,which occasionally occurs as freaks of nature, of which
:;1859.] Secale Cornulam for t?ie Eyes. 785hare-lip is a sample. We once saw a nasal deformity similar tothe above, but the lip was cleft. We hope our women are notgoing to reproduce all the deformities they see.Strychnia in Chronic Inter rnittents.—In the New Orleans MedicalNews and Hospital Gazette, Dr. Harrison, of Arkansas, hasan article upon the use of strychnia in chronic intermittents.The following is his formula" $.—Strychnia, gr. iss.Sulph. Quinine, gr. xv.Capsicum,gr. vj.Brandy, I iv. M." Of this mixture, I direct one tea-spoonful (for an adult) everyhour, for six or seven hours preceding the expected paroxysmat the end of this time I require the patient to take a cup ofwarm sage tea, and go to bed, (if he is not already there,) andremain until the paroxysmal hours pass. This course is to berepeated on the next * chill day,' after which a tea-spoonful ofthe medicine is to be taken two or three times per day, untilthe four ounces are exhausted."With Dr. H. F. Campbell's views of the nature of this disease,and its relation to the nervous sj'stem, the philosophy ofthis treatment becomes at once apparent. This, however, is notaltogether new treatment. Dr. Brainard, of Chicago, recommendedstrychnine, in an eighth of-a-grain dose, three time aday, in similar cases, more than twelve years ago. {See IndianaMedical Journal for July, 1847.)AYe are confident that the remedial powers of strychnia are notyet fully brought out. So far as we know, we were the first touse and recommend it, in sciatica and chronic rheumatism ;andwe have seen cases of dyspepsia and chronic costiveness yield toit like a charm.Secale Comutum in Disturbance of the Accommodation-power of theEyes.When local hyperemia is dependent upon a laxity of the wallsof the bloodvessels, advantage attends, Professor Willebrand,of Helsingfors, states, the employment of secale cornutum. Hewas induced to use it in these cases by the expectation that ameans which acts so specifically upon the unstripped uterinemuscular fibre must excite some power over the analogousstructure of the arteries, and which its haemostatic action proves,in fact, that it does. During his investigations he soon becamestruck with the fact that the heart of persons employing it soonunderwent contraction in all its dimensions, and that even
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