A treatise on the new-discovered dropsy of the membranes of the brain, and watery head of children : proving that it may be frequently cured, if early discovered, with objections to vomits, &c. &c. : to which are added, observations on errors in nursing, on the diseases of children, their treatment, &c. proper for the contemplation of parents / by William Rowley.

  • Rowley, William, 1742 or 1743-1806.
Date:
1801
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Credit: A treatise on the new-discovered dropsy of the membranes of the brain, and watery head of children : proving that it may be frequently cured, if early discovered, with objections to vomits, &c. &c. : to which are added, observations on errors in nursing, on the diseases of children, their treatment, &c. proper for the contemplation of parents / by William Rowley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    To cffeftuate thefe purpofes, three weeks or a month is the lead time allowed for the discharge to be continued ; but in cafes wherein dulnefs has been longer-obfcrved, the eva- cuation by a flimulating ointment has been continued four or live months, about the fize of the palm of the hand, or of a crown piece, exa&ly placed on the vertex, or crown of the head, where the hair naturally divides. All efforts to cure this diforder without Wittering have been fruillcfs; but with blifters and a copious difebarge, in the early ftages, the cure is frequently obtained. Internal Remedies. Tlie intefiines are to be kept active by about eight, ten, or twelve grains of powdered jalap, and ten or fifteen grains of magncfia; or to the fame quantity of powdered jalap, or rhubarb, two or three grains or more of calomel may be added, if the former (hould not acl. Pulv. fcammonii com- pofitus is likewife ufed for the fame purpofe. Stimulating clytters may alfo be occasionally administered. Perfpira'.kn/hould be promoted by about a quarter of a grain of calomel, and one or two grains of pubis antimonialis of the London Pharmacopoeia to be mixed with a little faccharum album, and taken every four or fix hours. After each powder, about a drachm, or two drachms of aqua ammonia: acetata; (fpt. Mindereri), diluted with a little aqua, fhould be given; to which may be added fyr. croci; and, if urine be impeded, two drops of tinrtura oracetum fcillae may be added. This is the treatment in the commencement of the difcafe; and it is remarkable, that the mercury does not acl as a ialivant, nor purgative, but Itriclly as a penetrating alterative, and generally diaphoretic *. • The fame cirenmftance has happ»ned in cymnche trachealis, or croup, inflammations of the lnnqs, pleura, and other membranoue, febrile difeafes, which I have, through lite, fuccelsfulv treated with a combination of antimony and hydrargyric preparations ; the excellent fuecefs of which is well known to numerous practitioners in mod parts •f this great metropolis. 3 After