Synopsis
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. 1877 Excerpt: ... poisoning by strychnine, evacuate the stomach as quickly as possible. Administer large doses of Opium per oram, or anum, or inject it hypodermically, at different points over the body. Other antidotes reoommended, are: Iodine (30 drops in 160 PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS. water), Camphor (5 grains dissolved in mucilage). These, it is said, stop the tetanic spasms, and give time for the action of the stomach-pump, or emetio. PUERPERAL CONVULSIONS. Therapeutics. Special indications. ACON. In the incipiency, when an attack is apprehended. After fright, Ign. Opi. Flushed face, dry, hot skin, thirst, and great restlessness. Great fear and anxiety of mind, thinks she will die, although there is no occasion of alarm. She dreads too much activity about her. Vertigo on rising up in bed. ARG. К. The patient has a presentiment of the approaching spasm. Tremor of the limbs, and faintish, weak feeling. Sensation as if the body, and especially the face and head, expanded. She feels as if the bones of the skull separated with increase of temperature. Continually in motion between the spasms. BELL. Red, bloated face, with distorted eyes and dilated pupils, Opi. She seems to be in a halfconscious state, with disposition to strike, bite, or injure those about her. Convulsive jerking of the limbs and muscles of the face. Foam at the mouth, and involuntary escape of faeces and urine, Hyos. With every pain a spasm comes on, and during the interval more or less tossing about. Sensation as if she were falling down through the bed. Grating of the teeth, Stram. CHAM. Great irritability of temper, she can hardly give a civil answer. Red, bloated face, or one cheek red and the other pale, Aeon. Becomes furious about the pains, which are very distressing. Twitching of the muscles of t...
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