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Title: A text-book of practical therapeutics, with especial reference to the application of remedial measures to disease and their employment upon a rational basis
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hare, H. A. (Hobart Amory), 1862-1931
Subjects: Therapeutics
Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, Lea Brothers & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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individuals who continually have colds in the head, chest, orelsewhere. Arsenic offers the best chance of benefiting cases of per-nicious anemia, but how it acts is not known. In leucocyth&mia andpseudoleukemia arsenic is again the remedy, and it must be constantlygiven up to the point of intolerance to be of value (Fig. 12). In the latterdisease good results have followed its use when intraglandular and intra-splenic injections of 4 minims (0.25) of Fowlers solution were used,and any case of severe anaemia where the stomach is disordered maybe treated by giving by the rectum in starch-water three times theordinary dose by the mouth or by its use hypodermieally in the pro-portion of 4 parts of water to 1 of Fowlers solution. 102 DRUGS. In malaria arsenic acts as a prophylactic, as a cure, and as an aid toconvalescence. When the attacks of intermittent fever occur at longintervals arsenic is useful as an antiperiodic, quinine being withheld foruse during the attack itself. Fig. 12.
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A case of typical spleno-medullary leuksemia in which under the effects of arsenic the spleendecreased in size more than one-half, as shown in outline, and the white cells dropped from342,000 to 32,000. There was a gain in weight of twenty pounds. No drug is so universally abused as is arsenic in the treatment ofskin diseases: it should never be employed in wet skin diseases;that is, those associated with much proliferation of new cells and theexudation of serum. Its field of usefulness is in the dry, scaly skinaffections. ARSENIC. 103 Where the skin is affected in its lower layers arsenic is useless, andshould be used only where the epiderm is diseased (Duhring). In psoriasis arsenic at first makes the skin more red and seeminglyworse, but this passes off and the patient gets well. This is importantto remember, as otherwise the drug may be stopped just when doinggood. Pemphigus, lichen, and lepra all yield to its influence in manyinstances. In the treatment of diabetes and pruritus v

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