Cases Illustrating and Confirming the Remedial Power of the Inhalation of Iodine and Conium in Tubercular Phthisis; And Various Disordered States of the Lungs and Air-Passages - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834. Excerpt: ... ON RESTORATIVE, DIET. 95 solely, which contain but little of the substance of the medicine, and tend to heat and stimulate in a greater ratio than to strengthen. On the same principle, of making it our study to improve the strength, rather than to increase the action of the heart and arteries, we should direct a diet that is mild and nutritious, and at the same time easily digestible in its nature, and the least stimulating. In that state of debility which is unattended with inflammatory action, it is not only admissible, but even useful, to administer, with the food, a small quantity of wine, old and pure in quality, more or less diluted with water; or a little sound porter. It appears to me that ale is too heating a beverage for persons affected with pulmonary disease. CASE VII. (Reprinted.) Empyema, with tubercles in the lungs; convalescence promising recovery; exposure to cold and wet producing a severe relapse of all the symptoms, and which proved eventually fatal. A gentleman, aged twenty-five, exposed 96 CASE OF EMPYEMA, WITH TUBERCLES. himself, on one of the coldest days of January 1829, on the outside of a coach, having fasted for a considerable time. He felt himself seized with the cold f coup de ventJ in the most distressing degree, and in a few hours after, when sitting in a warm apartment, he was affected with symptoms of fever. This indisposition was shortly removed; but he exposed himself again to a cold wind, the east, and very soon experienced a severe pain in the region of the heart, rendering a deep inspiration difficult, but unattended with cough. The treatment adopted was so far successful, that he passed the summer without much cause of complaint, until August; when, in walking, he was alarmed by suddenly coughing up about three ounc...