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Physician's Therapeutics Memoranda on Cholera Morbus
CHOLERA MORBUS
Apply hot mustard poultice over abdomen. Calomel may be given in the outset or castor oil to free bowel of irritant matter. Give aromatic sulphuric acid with carminatives and intestinal antisep tics. Large rectal injections of water as hot as can be borne often give prompt relief.1
Apply hot mustard poultice over abdomen. Calomel may be given in the outset or castor oil to free bowel of irritant matter. Give aromatic sulphuric acid with carminatives and intestinal antisep tics. Large rectal injections of water as hot as can be borne often give prompt relief.1
DIARRHEA
See also Cholera Infantum, Cholera Morbus and Dysentery. Simple Atonic Diarrhea is best treated by opium combined with gastric and intestinal stimulants, carminatives and astringents. Chlorodyne is an efficient remedy, also the sun cholera mixture and similar formulas given under Astringents, Intestinal in Part II. Many cases of diarrhea are best treated in the outset with a mer urial (calomel, mercurous iodide or blue mass) to be followed by remedies such as the foregoing. Often intestinal antiseptics are more useful than astringents, especially carbolic acid, salol, zinc sulphocarbolate, bismuth. Copious rectal injections of water as hot as can be borne will often cure. In Catarrhal Diarrhea, after an initial purge of magnesium sulphate or castor oil, give at first perhaps opium combined with lead acetate, or simple mineral acids, particularly the nitromuriatic; later ammonium chloride and potassium iodide. Chronic Diarrhea calls for general roborant treatment, carefully regulated diet, quiet with use of counter-irritants over abdomen. bismuth. silver nitrate, alum waters; intestinal antiseptics are often indicated.1
See also Cholera Infantum, Cholera Morbus and Dysentery. Simple Atonic Diarrhea is best treated by opium combined with gastric and intestinal stimulants, carminatives and astringents. Chlorodyne is an efficient remedy, also the sun cholera mixture and similar formulas given under Astringents, Intestinal in Part II. Many cases of diarrhea are best treated in the outset with a mer urial (calomel, mercurous iodide or blue mass) to be followed by remedies such as the foregoing. Often intestinal antiseptics are more useful than astringents, especially carbolic acid, salol, zinc sulphocarbolate, bismuth. Copious rectal injections of water as hot as can be borne will often cure. In Catarrhal Diarrhea, after an initial purge of magnesium sulphate or castor oil, give at first perhaps opium combined with lead acetate, or simple mineral acids, particularly the nitromuriatic; later ammonium chloride and potassium iodide. Chronic Diarrhea calls for general roborant treatment, carefully regulated diet, quiet with use of counter-irritants over abdomen. bismuth. silver nitrate, alum waters; intestinal antiseptics are often indicated.1
References
1) Nelson, Baker & Co., 1904, Physician's Handy Book of Materia Medica and Therapeustics, Detroit, Michigan.