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Title: Dr. Hood's plain talks about the human system : the habits of men and women - the causes and prevention of disease - our sexual relations and social natures - embracing common sense medical adviser...
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Hood, G. Durant
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Publisher: Chicago : Hood Medical Book Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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e shouldsnuff some powdered camphorup the nostrils, or inhale somespirits of camphor from apocket-handkerchief. Camphor is par excellencethe remedy for cholera andsummer diarrhoea. Four orfive drops of essence of cam-phor (the strong preparation)should be given in a tea-spoonful of brandy, every tenminutes, until the urgentsymptoms are relieved, andshould then be continuedhourly. It usually at oncechecks the diarrhoea, preventscramps, and restores warmth to the extremities, It is very desirable that it shouldbe given at the very commencement of the attack, every hour lost being ofimportance. There are many forms of diarrhoea not allied to cholera, which are, nevertheless,readily controlled by camphor. Thus, it usually restrains the diarrhoea excited bythe effluvia from bad drains, and the diarrhoea from which many women suffer when-ever they happen to catch cold. The weaker preparation (spirits of camphor),administered in the doses we have indicated, answers admirably for these cases.
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Fig. 5.—CAMPHOB. CANTHARIDES, OR SPANISH FLY. There is no doubt that the Greeks used some insect for the purposes of blistering,but whether it was our Spanish fly is a point on which there is some difference ofopinion. Some authorities have shown that it was the identical animal, whilstothers have proved with equal clearness that it was a different kind of beetlealtogether. It is really a matter of very little importance, for we know thatcantharides is a powerful medicinal agent. CANTHARIDES, OR SPANISH FLY. 771 The scientific name of the Spanish fly is Cantharis vesicatorum—ratlier a bigname for so small a creature. They are procured in Russia and Siberia, but chieflyin Hungary. They seldom are seen in England, except as an article of commerce, butsome forty years ago they are said to have been for a time quite common in Essexand Suffolk. Their life is a short one—for it is stated that they live only eight orten days. They swarm upon the trees about May or June, especially on t

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