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Handy Book of Medical Information and Advice (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

James Warburton Begbie

 
9781330806388: Handy Book of Medical Information and Advice (Classic Reprint)

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When an attack has occurred, its severity will be frequently mitigated by the exhibition of one or other of the most approved anti-spasmodic remedies, as chloric ether, or chloroform the former in doses of thirty to sixty drops, the latter, five to fifteen drops. A mustard poultice, applied over the front of the chest, often brings relief. A dose Of laxative medicine, too, is likely to be useful Many suf ferers are relieved only by a free expectoration of phlegm from the bronchial tubes and in such cases, remedies which tend to hasten this effect do good. The author has a patient at present under his care, for whom a laxative is always first prescribed, and after its operation, a solution of tartar emetic, Of which one-sixth of a grain is given, till a free ex pectoration follows usually this supervenes in from eight to twelve hours, and then complete freedom in breathing returns. The gouty are sometimes affected with spasmodic asthma; they specially re quire to regulate the stomach.

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