Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics : including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and extemporaneous pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter.

Samuel Otway Lewis Potter

Date:: 1887

Credit: Handbook of materia medica, pharmacy and therapeutics : including the physiological action of drugs, the special therapeutics of disease, official and extemporaneous pharmacy, and minute directions for prescription writing / by Sam'l O.L. Potter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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$or hypertropbied. Syr. Ferri lodidi, with Cod-liver Oil, wins half the battle (G.)- Zinc Valerianate, in 2 to 4-grain doses thrice daily, is one of the Ijest nervines in these cases (G.). Scarijii-ation, after dry cupping, in chronic me- tritis (Thos.). Electricity, \n chronic congestive enlargement, a galvanic cur- rent of moderate intensity, slowly interrupted (B.). Water, hot injections or douche, also cold alternately; one of the most effective measures; a gallon very hot, ter die (R.);—especially valuable in congestion, which is generally venous;—elevated hips a necessary part of treatment (E.). Cold water is often better than hot (G.). Rest, to the patient and the organ, is of prime importance. Abdominal bandage, skirt-supporters, pessary if anteversion or retroversion, abstinence from sexual intercourse (Thos.). Prescriptions, R. Ext. Humuli, . . gj. Elix. Amnion. Valerianat., Syr. Lactucarii, . . aa ^ss. M. Sig.—A dessertsp. at bedtime, or during the day when needed, as an antispasmodic. (Goodell.) R. lodi, Potas. Bromidi,. . aa gr. xx. Tinct. lodi, . . 3J. Aq. Destillat., , . ad .^^iv. M. Sig.—Tn.xxxto be injected into cervix by 3-5 punctures. {Goodell.) Uterine Diseases. Cimicifuga, to prevent miscarriage in irritable uterus and prolapsus (R.); promises to be a valuable remedy in uterine affections (Wa.); is remarkably efficient in neuralgia and sympathetic pains arising from an irritable uterus, no matter what their precise character (P.). Belladon7ia,vi\'0L\ tannin, as sup- pository in uterine neuralgia (R.); as vaginal or rectal injections, in neuralgic or inflammatory pains (Tr.). Arsenic, in irritable uterus, of decided benefit; gr. Jjj ter die, after meals (Wa.). Carbonic Acid, injection up vagina for neuralgia (R., Wa.). Opium, with starch as injection into the rectum vi'ill subdue the pain of uterine diseases (R.); gives more speedy relief than any other remedy in irritable uterus, but long-continued is one of the worst (Wa.). Iodized Phenol, has proved the most generally efficient agent for intra-uterine use during eight years' experience, applied by hard rubber probes wound with cotton-wool. It removes cervical mucus, gives freedom from pain, softens and dilates the cervix, heals abrasions, removes induration, removes villosities, regulates the menses, improves appetite and digestion, acts as a general altera- tive, overcomes barrenness, etc., if used long enough, but rapid results are not attainable by any method of treatment (Battey). Lead, as plaster for pain in the back due to uterine disease (R.). Chlorofor?7i, spray, in neuralgia (R.). Aquapuncture, has had extraordinary success in uterine colic (B.). Baths of warm salt water remarkably useful in nervous or inflammatory hysteralgia (Tr.). [See Abortion, Amenorrhcea, Climacteric, Dysmen- ORRHCEA, Endometritis, Hemorrhage Post-partum, Leucorrhcea, Men- orrhagia, Menstrual Disorders, Metritis, Metrorrhagia, Prolapsus Uteri, etc.] Uterine Displacements. Anteversion without prolapse, not a mal-position (E.). Ice, locally when parts inflamed (R.); Hot-water injections, to give tone to the vessels, essen- tial. Also valuable after reduction of mal-positions (E,). Mechanical Means, only reliable or safe in retroversion and prolapse ; the sound, as a means to$