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. 1865 Excerpt: ...exists are liable to be attacked by the disease. An English military officer who had gone through the campaign of the mutiny of 1856, in India, came home invalided with lepra. Another example was that of a physician who had resided in India for forty years. Prognosis.--The question of the curability of lepra is in ...
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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. 1865 Excerpt: ...exists are liable to be attacked by the disease. An English military officer who had gone through the campaign of the mutiny of 1856, in India, came home invalided with lepra. Another example was that of a physician who had resided in India for forty years. Prognosis.--The question of the curability of lepra is in suspense, and its decision must be influenced by a variety of considerations, such as the origin of the disease, whether hereditary or accidental, and the severity of the attack. The prevailing opinion would seem to be that lepra is incurable, or in favourable cases remediable only in a limited degree. Treatment.--In the presence of a vast evil we are apt to undervalue our natural resources, and look for help from special assistance. That error must not be committed in the case of lepra; all that our usual medical means can accomplish must be effected, and this done, we may turn our attention to specific remedies; to the best of our experience in lepra, a slender reed, but not without hope, if judiciously employed. The early febrile symptoms of the disease, the weakened digestion, the deranged assimilation, and the cutaneous manifestation of congestion, are so many indications that may be combated by appropriate remedies. This is rational expectant medicine; but in the absence of special and empirical knowledge, we can have no better guide. The remedies suited to these indications are: small and repeated doses of sulphate of magnesia, with quinine and infusion of orange-peel, the chlorate of potash, and the salts of ammonia, bicarbonate, acetate, and hydrochlorate. Next will follow the nitro-muriatic acid with bitters, phosphoric acid with iron, and the citrate of iron and quinine. We have seen the best effects result from the use of these ordinar...
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