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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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under thesecircumstances the employment of opium is indicated, and is usuallyvery successful. In irritative coughs morphine given in syrup of wild-cherry bark does good in the dose of -^ to -^ grain (0.005-0.006). In some cases of irritable cough due to a tickling sensation in thelarynx, much relief can be had by inhaling the steam arising from acup of boiling water in which has been placed a drachm or two ofparegoric. Whenever cough is excessive—that is, greater than is necessary tofree the lungs from mucus—morphine may be given in small doses. Ifthe lungs contain more rales after its use than before, its use must bestopped, as the increase in the number of rales indicates an increasedaccumulation of mucus. In the treatment of strangury due to cystitis, and in rectal inflam-mation, provided they are not acute, and after operation on the pelvicorgans, suppositories of the strength of \ to \ grain (0.015-0.03)of the watery extract of opium are useful. In excessive vomiting PLATE I.
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Chart showing the effect of opium in a ease of diabetes mel-litus. On the day of admission the patient was placed on a fullhouse diet. The quantity of urine and fluid ingested at onceincreased. He then was placed on a restricted diet which causeda fall in the urine and fluids ingested but no decrease in sugar.Opium was now given and the sugar fell at once (see greenline). Later on the house diet was resumed but the opium heldthe sugar in cheek. Note how the fluids increased on the 28thof May and how they fell when the opium was renewed andincreased. The chart shows how the restricted diet governedthe urinary flow and how the opium was needed to control themelituria. OPIUM. 363 from any cause, except it be from a previous dose of opium, anenema of deodorized laudanum 30 minims (2.0) and starch-water 4ounces (120.0), with 40 grains (2.6) of bromide of sodium, will befound of value. (See Vomiting, Part IV.) In muscular rheumatism and similar states, and in the incipientstage of a cold, o

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