Specific medication and specific medicinesWilstach, Baldwin & Company, printers, 1881 - 432 pages |
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Page 24 - We may lay it down as an axiom from which it is never safe to depart, that no medicine should be given unless the pathological condition and the indications for its use are clearly defined.
Page 6 - Specific medication requires specific diagnosis. We do not propose to teach that single remedies are opposed to diseases according to our present nosology. These consist of an association of functional and structural lesions, varying in degree and combination at different times, very rarely the same in any two cases. To prescribe remedies rationally we are required to analyze the disease and separate it into its component elements, and for these we select the appropriate remedy.
Page 95 - In does not seem to increase or depress innervation, (neither stimulant nor sedative), but rather to influence a regular performance of function. I am satisfied, however, that its continued use improves the nutrition of the heart, thus permanently strengthening the organ. It has a second influence, which is of much importance to the therapeutist.
Page 192 - Sir— You have by this time, in all probability, heard something of an extraordinary discovery for the cure of small-pox, by the use of Sarracenia Purpurea, or Indian Cup, a native plant of Nova Scotia. I would beg of you, however, to give full publicity to the astonishing fact, that this same humble bog-plant of Nova Scotia is the remedy for small -pox, in all its forms, in twelve hours after the patient has taken the medicine.
Page 192 - Strange, however, to say, it is scarcely two years since science and the medical world were utterly ignorant of this great boon of Providence; and it would be dishonorable in me not to acknowledge that had it not been for the discretion of Mr. John Thomas Lane, of Lanespark, County Tipperary, Ireland, late of Her Majesty's Imperial Customs of Nova Scotia/ to whom the Mec-Mac Indians had given the plant, the world would not now be in possession of the secret. No medical man before me had ever put...
Page 157 - It was first Brought to the notice of the profession by Dr. BW Richardson, of London, in 1860, and since has been used to a limited extent.
Page 192 - Sarracenia, they are deprived of their contagious properties. The medicine, at the same time, is so mild to the taste, that it may be mixed largely with tea or coffee, as I have done, and given to connoisseurs in these beverages to drink, without their being aware of the admixture. Strange, however, to say, it is scarcely two years since science and the medical world were utterly ignorant of this great boon of Providence ; and it would be dishonorable in me not to acknowledge that had it not been...
Page 57 - In general terms, veratrum is the remedy in sthenia, aconite in asthenia, but there are too many exceptions to this to make it a safe rule for our guidance. Veratrum is the remedy when there is a frequent but free circulation. It is also the remedy when there is an active capillary circulation, both in fever and inflammation. A full and bounding pulse, a full and hard pulse, and a corded or wiry pulse, if associated with inflammation of serous tissues, call for this remedy. Aconite is the remedy...
Page 10 - Many persons are in error in regard to our use of the term specific. They think of a specific medicine, as one that will cure all cases of a certain disease, according to our present nosology, as pneumonitis, dysentery, diarrhoea, albuminuria, phthisis, etc. ; and a person looking at the subject in this light, and guided by his experience in the use of remedies, would at once say there are no specifics.
Page 73 - ... freely ; he soon becomes flushed and both his pulse and respiration are much accelerated, and when he feels warm...