On the Nature Signs And Treatment of Childbed Fevers
The book On the Nature Signs And Treatment of Childbed Fevers was written by author Charles Delucena Meigs Here you can read free online of On the Nature Signs And Treatment of Childbed Fevers book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is On the Nature Signs And Treatment of Childbed Fevers a good or bad book?
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For thousands of persons, calomel and mercurials induce a gastric distress of a nature indescribable. This qualm, or sick- ness is, however, attended, for the most part, with a softer beat of the arteries, and that I take to be equal to a lessened violence of the sanguine injection into the inflamed vascular areas ; but it is at the same time highly irritating to the bowels, and on that very account, less to be esteemed than milder aperients or purgatives. 547. You cannot make out of the study ...of the Mercurials, which, as M. Renouard says, sect, 537, are specifics in syphilis, any spe- cific properties of those drugs as to our childbed-fever phlegmasias. You can only appeal to them as perturbators, or shock-giving medicines, and to that perturbation, or shock-cure, as a cure by MERCURY. 295 chance — merely a cure by guess. If I miglit be allowed by you, to introduce a homely but strong figure : those that depend upon them, are people to make a spoon or spoil a horn — whenever they employ mercurials without a clear understanding of the objects in view, and the probability of attaining to the ends proposed.
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