A treatise of the materia medica and therapeutics (Volume 1).

  • Eberle, John, 1787-1838.
Date:
1830
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    provement in the condition of the skin, respiration, and pulse in particular; and, perhaps, it is on the power which they possess of determining the blood to the sur- face, and of changing the morbid states of the circula- tion, that their efficacy depends. In typhus pneumonica I have derived much advantage from emetics, in every stage of the disease. They ap- peared to be particularly serviceable where much dis- tress and pain in the thorax, with signs of internal con- gestion, were present. In such cases they promoted expectoration, and tended to re-establish the equilibrium of the circulation. They appeared, moreover, to render the system more susceptible to the operation of stimu- lants. In the typhoid and typhus pneumonica, says professor Potter,et that occasioned such lamentable mor- tality, of late years, throughout the United States, emetics, judiciously employed, were more beneficial than any other remedy. It was, indeed, a novel specta- cle to those who were accustomed to unsheath the lancet in almost every thoracic affection, to behold a pneumo- nic fever, perhaps an hemoptoe, removed by the incanta- tion of a single emetic. Emetics have also been recommended in the various forms of malignant fever. In the beginning of some fevers of this character, they may occasionally prove beneficial, though, as a general rule, they are of doubt- ful propriety even in the earlier stages of such fevers ; and, in their advanced periods, for the most part, in- jurious. In intermittents vomits are a very common remedy. They, indeed, not unfrequently put a stop to the dis- ease, without the employment of any other medicine. There exists some difference of opinion with regard to