Modern Therapeutics of the Diseases of Children; With Observations on the Hygiene of Infancy

This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1885. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... Dr. Ellis finds it disappointing. Its especial value is in nervous, lienteric cases. A child of six months should have gr. ij every six hours, in powder or mucilage. No sugar should he used with it. If so employed, it will be found a remedy of real and great power, capable of restoring even severe dysenteric cases, almost in extremis. DIPHTHERIA. THE PROPHYLACTIC TREATMENT. It is the opinion of Prof. E. N. Chapman, M. D., of Brooklyn, that a decided stimulant, especially alcohol, taken regularly, will protect persons from the diphtheritic poison. He prescribes for those in health who are exposed to it, the following: 158. R. Quinoidine, Cinchoniaj sulphatis, aa gr. xxv Aeidi sulphurici aromatici, f. g ij Spiritfis frumenti, f. 3 viij. M. Fifteen drops to a tablespoonful, according to age, four or five times a day. The German Prof. Klebs, from experiments to ascertain what drugs have a destructive influence on the diphtheritic process, believes that he has shown that the most potent in this direction is the benzoate of soda, and is inclined to think that the administration of this substance will strongly tend to prevent the establishment of the disease. He also uses it when the attack begins, 5j-ij, to a child of five years. In all cases of illness, when diphtheria is prevalent, it is expedient to look into the throat, as, occasionally, when there is not even ground of suspicion, the characteristic spot or layer of moldiness, like an irregular patch of white kid, will be discerned. Now is the time when one single painting with a strong solution of nitrate of silver may effectually destroy the parasite and rescue the patient. Twenty-four hours later, and the attempt will be vain. In a paper read at the Medical Society of Victoria, and published in the Austra...