Specific Medication and Specific MedicinesWilstach, Baldwin & Company, printers, 1870 - 253 pages |
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Page 129 - ... xxx of a common tincture. It has one other specific action which is worthy of mention. It is the remedy in dysuria from stricture. and will rarely fail in enabling the patient to pass urine in from four to eight hours.
Page 210 - ... 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 this medicine upon trial, but in 1861, when the whole Province of Nova...
Page 95 - The influence of Cactus seems to be wholly exerted on the sympathetic nervous system, and especially upon, and through the cardiac plexus. It 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 13 - ... dirty-white, pasty coat requires the alkaline sulphites, etc. It is not necessary to continue this illustration further, for the reader will see by the above that specific medication requires specific diagnosis, and that it will be successful just in proportion as we become skilled in this. It is true that almost any one can use veratrum and aconite successfully, for the conditions are so prominent that they can not be mistaken; or any one may successfully prescribe aconite in sporadic dysentery...
Page 80 - The symptoms calling for the use of belladonna are usually very plain : The patient is dull and stupid, and the child drowsy, and sleeps with its eyes partly open ; the countenance expressionless ; the eyes are dull, and the pupils dilated or immobile ; whilst as it continues respiration becomes affected and the blood imperfectly aerated. "In these cases I prescribe belladonna ; in the adult, in the proportion of gtt.
Page 10 - We use the term specific with relation to definite pathological conditions, and propose to say that certain well determined deviations from the healthy state will always be corrected by certain specific medicines.
Page 10 - ... 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 210 - I gather from the fact that if either the vaccine or variolous matter be washed with the infusion of the 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...
Page 14 - ... irritation ; apocynum cannabinum for dropsy, etc. These remedies have an extra value attached to them, because the conditions indicating them are so easily determined. Yet the reader will learn with surprise that ten years since, with but one exception, not one of these agents was used for the purpose named. In 1860, ten pounds of the crude root of collinsonia supplied the market for a year, now one house gets in ten thousand pounds for the year's supply.
Page 172 - 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.