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favorable. Treatment.—While I do not claim that we have a specific treatment for this troublesome affection, 1 do claim that the cough can be so modified and the disease so controlled that the mortality will be very small. Belladonna, given in small doses, is one of our best remedies; add five to ten drops of the specific tincture to half a glass of water, and give a teaspoonful every one, two, or three hours. Our “regular” brother is beginning to recognize its value, for Jacobi regards it as the most satisfactory remedy for this disease. The indications are the same as in other troubles, —dullness, with capillary congestion. Drosera is called for when the child is hoarse and the cough croupal in character. Bromide of ammonium, where the most marked symptom is the convulsion or spasmodic character of the cough. Dr. Webster speaks very highly of magnesium phosphate 3x. An infusion of red clover blossoms, recently cured, to which may be added simple syrup, is an old domestic remedy of much virtue. Burning a little sulphur in the sleeping-room before putting the child to bed will often insure a good night's rest. Dr. W. P. Best, of Indianapolis, presented a paper on “Solanum in Whooping-cough” at our National Medical Association, giving his experience with this drug. So favorably was he impressed with the drug, that he sent me a trial bottle. After using it in a number of cases, I am convinced that in solanum we have almost a specific for this troublesome disease. Bromoform, in from one to five minims suspended in syrup, has recently been highly recommended, though in my hands it has not been as successful as the above described remedies. Inhalations sometimes afford relief. During convalescence the child should be carefully watched, as it is at this time pulmonary complications are so liable to occur. If the child be delicate and the parents be able to profit by the prescription, a change of climate affords great benefit during the stage of convalesence. The Eclectic Practice of Medicine - PART I - Infectious Diseases - Page 150
DIPHTHERIA. <strong>Synonyms</strong>. — Diphtheritis; Angina Maligna; Membranous Croup. <strong>Definition</strong>.—An acute infectious disease characterized by a grayishwhite, fibrinous exudate, usually located upon the tonsils or neighboring tissues, though it may occur upon any abraded surface; the frequent involvement of the upper air-passages, and a toxemia that is attended by severe prostration; paralysis of certain organs and muscles, together with cardiac weakness. History.—Diphtheria is one of the most greatly feared, most fatal, and most common diseases of childhood. Its history antedates the Christian Era by more than a hundred years; for Asclepiades performed laryngotomy for respiratory obstruction, and it is therefore probable that he treated croup and diphtheria; while Aretseus, a Greek physician of Cappadocia, whose writings are still extant, accurately describes diphtheria when he says, “The tonsils are covered with a white, livid, or black concrete product,” and adds, if it invades the chest by the trachea, it causes suffocation the same day. Galen, during the second century, undoubtedly referred to diphtheria when he described a “fatal disease then prevailing, where the patient expelled a membranous tunic by coughing- or spitting.” Aetius, in the fifth century, describes a disease of the throat where the ulceration had a peculiar white, ashy, or rusty color. This undoubtedly was the same dread disease. From the fifth to the sixteenth century there is no record of the disease; but it is not at all likely that the disease had disappeared from the world, but that the medical writings of the Dark Ages suffered the same as general literature, and the disease most likely appeared during these centuries the same as before and since, numbering its victims by the thousands. During the sixteenth century epidemics prevailed in various parts of Europe, and the disease has steadily kept pace with the intervening centuries, so that we enter the twentieth century with the dread scourge more thoroughly intrenched in all large cities than it has ever been. This is a sad confession for the medical world to make, when we remember that, during the last twenty-five years, this disease has been studied more, discussed in medical societies more frequently, and has The Eclectic Practice of Medicine - PART I - Infectious Diseases - Page 151
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Page 45 and 46: Predisposing causes are, poor hygie
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Page 49 and 50: disease. The membrane disappears, t
Page 51 and 52: the gonococcus, the bacillus coli c
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Gastro-Intestinal Disturbance.—Th
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onchitis, and crepitant and subcrep
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with little or no fever, the diseas
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viscera, the diagnosis is extremely
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Tuberculosis of the Kidney.—Tuber
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opposite to those above mentioned.
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This is not always easy to determin
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1/60 grain doses may also be given
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is responsible, not only for diphth
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and vary in size from that of a mil
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and leave behind a cicatrix, a cons
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jaundice is sometimes observed, and
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present, inquire as to pruritis, if
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described by Benjamin Rush. From 18
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great nervous irritation. For the m
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Exciting Cause.—To Kitasato belon
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Treatment.—The treatment heretofo
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The specific cause, the bacillus le
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death, the leper's friend, comes to
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hours, small nodules develop, which
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proliferated connective tissue-cell
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survive for some minutes at a tempe
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same as wool-sorter's disease, and
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From two weeks to three months is t
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this purpose. The patient should be
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e a rupture of the muscles. Any sli
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF DOUBTFUL NAT
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disease. “Synochal and Synochoid
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“The condition of the nervous sys
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“With Predominant Affection of th
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high, and the tendency is to typhoi
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