Informational.ca| Informational.ca | Privacy |
 |
Home |
Medical Articles |
Mother's Remedies |
Household Tips |
Medicine History |
Search |
Medical ArticlesFever TyphoidTreat as under Fever, Gastric, and Fever. In addition, great c... Spatula-protected Method Safety-pins in children, point upward, when lodged high in t... Dysmenorrhoea - Painful Menstruation For this disorder, I know of no one remedy so valuable as the... Small-pox _Small-pox_, by far the most dangerous of them, has found a b... Perspiration By this term we mean not only the sensible perspiration which ... Bruises Case Xx It frequently occurs to surgeons to receive slight wounds upo... Inflammation Of The Bowels See Bowels. ... Endogastric Version A very useful and comparatively safe method is illustrated i... Vaccination Trouble When a child is suffering after vaccination, we should have hi... Tumours A large, soft, fleshy tumour is usually simply an accumulation... The Digestive System How the Food Reaches the Stomach. Our body, then, has an open... Version Of A Safety Pin A safety pin of very small size may be turned over in a dire... Autodrownage Autodrownage is the name given by the author to the drowning... The Care Of An Invalid TO take really good care of one who is ill requires n... Priessnitz's Method The Wet-sheet-pack a remedy which, alone, is worth the whole antiphlogistic, dia... Head Baths See Baths for Head. ... Simple Dilatation The term "simple dilatation" may be applied to the dilatation... Dripping Sheet Substitute For The Half-bath To apply the _dripping sheet_, a tin bathing hat or a large w... Convalescence When compensation has been restored, the patient may be allow... Ventilation All-important If the circulation of air is necessary in any other form of ... |
The Anti-gastric MethodCategory: TREATMENT OF SCARLET-FEVER. Source: Hydriatic Treatment Of Scarlet Fever In Its Different Forms consisting in the free use of emetics or purgatives, has been recommended by some eminent practitioners. Withering, Tissot, Kennedy and others are in favor of the former, and find fault with the latter, whilst Hamilton, Willard, Abernethy, Gregory, &c., prefer purgatives, and some, of course, look upon calomel as the anchor of safety, which they recommend in quantities of from five to ten grains per hour. The friends of one part of the anti-gastric method make war upon the other: Withering finding purgatives entirely out of place and Sandwith, Fothergill and others having seen nothing but harm done by them, whilst Wendt, Berndt, Heyfelder and others caution their readers against emetics. The anti-gastric method has been of some service in epidemics and individual cases, when the character of the disease was decidedly gastric and bilious. To use emetics or purgatives indiscriminately would do much more harm than good; as, for instance, during a congestive condition of the brain, the former, and with inflammatory symptoms of the bowels, the latter, would be almost sure to sacrifice the patient to the method. Next: The Ammonium Carbonicum Previous: The Expletive Method Blood-letting
Viewed 91 |
||||||||||||||||||||
