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. 1902 Excerpt: ... the cause of cirrhosis in a small percentage of cases. For the cases in which malaria is suspected, Quinine and Arsenic should be persisted in. Murchison attached importance to the action of the Chloride of Ammonium and Green Iodide of Mercury in ordinary alcoholic cirrhosis ( to I grain, three times a day). These ...
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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. 1902 Excerpt: ... the cause of cirrhosis in a small percentage of cases. For the cases in which malaria is suspected, Quinine and Arsenic should be persisted in. Murchison attached importance to the action of the Chloride of Ammonium and Green Iodide of Mercury in ordinary alcoholic cirrhosis ( to I grain, three times a day). These remedies, in the great majority of cases, cannot be pushed with safety, especially as most of the victims of cirrhosis are suffering from gastric troubles. Many of them are debilitated from want of common food, having long since ceased to live with regularity and prudence. In such cases there is no remedy so frequently applicable as the Diluted NitroHydrochloric Acid in full doses, combined with a vegetable bitter in small amount. It may, moreover, be given at the earliest and is often grateful during the later stages of the disease. As this acid is liable to decomposition, it is very often disappointing, and fails to give any evidence of therapeutic power. It should consequently be seen that the specimen be of moderate age, and that it has been carefully preserved in a stoppered bottle. The Nitro-Hydrochloric Acid bath is prepared by mixing I oz. of strong Nitric and 2 ozs. of Hydrochloric Acid in 2 gallons of warm water. A local pack may be administered by soaking cloths in this mixture and applying them to the abdomen and lower part of the chest. The writer, however, prefers to apply the acid mixture in the above strength upon spongio-piline worn under a bandage over the entire hepatic region. As soon as any eruption appears the acid may be discontinued, but in some cases the mild counter-irritation produced by covering the acid lotion with an impervious tissue is productive of benefit. The following is a good combination; it acts direct...
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