The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 25

Download or read book The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 25 written by W. Braithwaite and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-14 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Retrospect of Medicine, Vol. 25: Being a Half-Yearly Journal, Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences; January-June, 1852 After the first decided impression has been made on the disease by the quinine, it is invariably necessary to support the patient's strength by good beef-tea, and a moderate allowance of wine. Purgatives, without some decided necessity, should be avoided. When the head continues much involved, a strong capsicum enema - a drachm of the powder to ten ounces of water - will often afford relief. The minor adjuvants in fever may also occasionally be resorted to with comfort and advantage. In these observations I have confined myself to the exposition of general principles, and altogether avoided cases, as I entirely concur with that eminent physician, Dr. William Stokes, whose Lectures on Fever' are unexcelled in the English or any other language, that you might as well expect to find two human beings exactly alike, as to find two cases of fever perfectly similar: - the varieties are infinite. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.