Clinical observations on pyrodine, a new antipyretic / by J. Dreschfeld.

  • Dreschfeld, Julius, 1845-1907.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Clinical observations on pyrodine, a new antipyretic / by J. Dreschfeld. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In several cases of pneumonia where antipyrin and antifebrin had not affected the temperature, pyrodiue acted at once and effectively. This was seen in two cases of pneumonia in children. Scarlet Fever.—Pyrodiue was tried in 25 cases of scarlet fever, where the initial temperature was very high, and where the children suffered very much in consequence of the high fever. The effect in these cases Fio 1, r-42 -4T -40 3S -3fi 0/ -3( was very good. The temperature was quickly reduced, occasionally below normal (in one case to 95-2°), without any unpleasant symptom being produced, such as collapse or prostration. In some of these cases, where the anginal symptoms were very severe, the temperature would rise again some hours after a dose of pyrodiue had been given (the dose varied from 2 to 4 grains, according to the age of the child), but was