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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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citation of the Jieart, will do well to take the infu-sion of foxglove in the cautious manner we have indicated.When this condition is also attended with anaemia (paleness, or poorness of theblood) the digitalis may be advantageous, combined with an iron mixture. InPr. 8 we have the formula for such a combination. Digitalis is one of our best remedies for dropsy, whether dependent on Brightsdisease or on some affection of the heart. It greatly increases the flow of urine, andin this manner drains off the fluid from the limbs. Half tea-spoonful doses of thefreshly prepared infusion will usually be found efficacious. It is not as a ruledesirable to continue the medicine after the swelling has subsided. Digitalis is a useful remedy for spermatorrhcea, although in the majority of casesbromide of potassium, as already recommended, is to be preferred. The infusion ofdigitalis may be taken in tea-spoonful doses three times a day lor a week. Strictattention must be paid to the general health.
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Fig. 6.— DHHTALX1. EPSOM SALTS, AND OTHER SALINE PURGATIVES. 785 The foxglove is useful in headache when confined to the foreliead, and of a heavythrobbing character; and it is especially indicated when this condition is combinedwith buzzing in tlie ears, dimness of sight, and tJie presence of sparks and coloursbefore tlie eyes. The best plan is to give five or ten drops of the infusion of digitalisevery hour, or oftener, until relief is obtained. EPSOM SALTS, AND OTHER SALINE PURGATIVES. From the mildness and safety of its operation, its ready solubility in water,and its cheapness, sulphate of magnesia, or Epsom salts, was for many years themost commonly employed purgative, both by the public and their doctors, althoughits popularity is now apparently somewhat on the wane. Its most familiar name isderived from its original discoveiy in 1675 in a spring at Epsom. Epsom has lostmuch of its original reputation as a watering-place, although a good many peoplestill make a pilgrimage in

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