This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: .of two grains, and have had occasion to repeat it every second hour, or even every hour for a few doses; of course, carefully watching its effects, and going on with a smaller quantity as soon as the violent pain was subdued. But in the cases now in the hospital there is no occasion to use this remedy to the same extent;--Liq.

Opii Sedativ. ttjxx. 6tis horis, you saw, in Alexander's case, was sufficient to check the disease. A corresponding dose of the Tr. Opii sufficed for Hililich, in whose case I was enabled to discontinue it altogether in about five days, though in the former, I continued to administer it for a somewhat longer period. The diet must be nourishing, but light and not solid, if the tongue be loaded, or there is great heat of skin; and if this latter symptom be present, the ammoniated saline draught, with an excess of about five grains of the sesquicarbonate, and the opium, in the form of Dover's powder, will be the best mode of administering your remedies;--when the state of the tongue will warrant, you may return to solid food. The pulse will guide you in the administration of brandy or wine, but the employment of these stimuli will not be often necessary at the commencement of the disease, although they may become useful at a later period, and in some cases no stimulus of this kind is required at all. The state of the bowels must be'attended to, and a warm purgative, such as the Haust.

Rhei, or a little colocynth, you will find the most appropriate means for regulating them. Mercury for this purpose is seldom indicated, though a small dose of blue pill or calomel may occasionally be necessary, in the employment of tonics you are to be guided by the condition of the tongue, --some of the preparations of bark, and bark.