On scarlatina and its successful treatment by the acidum aceticum dilutum of the Pharmacopoeia / [Isaac Baker Brown].

  • Brown, Isaac Baker, 1812-1873
Date:
1846
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Credit: On scarlatina and its successful treatment by the acidum aceticum dilutum of the Pharmacopoeia / [Isaac Baker Brown]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    liniment, a mustard poultice made of mustard and cold vinegar; and as soon as the liniment or poultice has had the desired effect, I order a linseed poultice from ear to ear, to be changed every three hours and never left off; I give a dose of calomel, two grains to a child under three years, and three grains above that age; and two hours afterwards a tea or dessert spoon¬ ful of castor oil. If, as it sometimes happens, the patient cannot keep the oil on the stomach, I give a, dose of rhubarb and magnesia; but I always first try the oil; and it will not unfre- quently happen that the patient can retain the oil, although the parents tell you that it has never before been able to do so. My reasons for preferring castor oil, or some very mild and bland aperient, is, that the whole mucous mem¬ brane throughout the intestinal canal being under a state of irritation, great care should be had not to further irritate it by any purgative or saline aperient, as I have frequently seen diarrhoea follow a dose of Epsom salts, or even sulphate of potash, which has debilitated the patient, caused increased sore throat, and ended in death. As soon as the bowels are relieved,