Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... and ten were benefited by it. From the 25th of September to the 24th of October, 36 patients from the same hospital were subjected to the effects of the same remedy. The cases were rheumatism, acute and chronic, quotidian fever, gastro-enteritis, organic affections of the stomach, chronic peritonitis, chronic irritation of the bladder, pulmonary consumption, hypertrophy of the heart, and abscesses in the arm; others were convalescents exhausted for want of sleep. They all derived decided and permanent benefit from the use of the thridach: pain was lulled and sleep procured. In none of these patients was the contracted pupil, so remarkable after the employment of opium, observed. Dr. Francois also mentions that he has known individuals affected with nocturnal emissions, cured by the continued use of the thridach for six weeks or two months. The dose was 2, 4, 6, and 8 grains in 24 hours, divided into two, three, or four doses. I have frequently exceeded this dose without perceiving any disagreeable effect. SALTS OF GOLD. About the year 1810 M. Chrestien, of Montpellier, called the attention of the medical world to the preparations of gold, and published in his Methode latraleptique, the formulae of the salts he employed. Since that time several physicians have experimented with this remedy, and have not succeeded as M..Chrestien did; though, on the other hand, many have been equally happy in the results; so that the salts of gold may now be mentioned as efficacious remedies in syphilitic complaints. Nor can 1 conceive how M. Chrestien should have so far misunderstood my opinion, as to think that I held these medicines in no esteem. Besides M. Chrestien, Dr. Legrand (De l'or, de son emploi dans le traitement de la syphilis recente et...
