Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet... Tr., with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton.

  • Martinet, L. (Louis), 1795-1875.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Manual of therapeutics / by L. Martinet... Tr., with alterations and additions, by Robert Norton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    It is unnecessary to enter into further details of the plan of treatment, as it is just thesame as that described under the word A rachnitis. The same measures should be resorted to in cases of convulsion of the limbs or face, combined with loss of consciousness, and coma, when these last symptoms have re- cently arisen, and the strength of the patient is not too much exhausted; in opposite cir- cumstances, any further loss of blood would only accelerate the fatal issue of the disease. It is to affusions, the continued application of cold water to the head, and to warm baths, that we must then trust, unless there is unna- tural coldness of the surface of the body, a state of which we shall speak more fully afterwards. But as soon as blood-letting ceases to be followed by any amelioration of the disease, if the symptoms of effusion advance, and the patient becomes gradually weaker, with a pulse either extremely quick or extremely slow, we may endeavour to produce a pow-