The modern practice of physic : exhibiting the characters, causes, symptoms, prognostics, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating the diseases of all climates / by Robert Thomas, M.D., of Salisbury.

Thomas, Robert, 1753-1835.

Date:: 1813

Credit: The modern practice of physic : exhibiting the characters, causes, symptoms, prognostics, morbid appearances, and improved method of treating the diseases of all climates / by Robert Thomas, M.D., of Salisbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$opiates, and a free use of tobacco, which may both be chewed and smok- ed. The aquae kali administered in doses of about five-and-twenty or.thir- ty drops in a Uttie veal broth, and repeated twice a day, might probably have a good effect. A medical friend has communicated a case of bulimia to me, which was cured by confining the patient to a diet consisting wholly of eggs boiled to a very hard consistence ; and these he carried constantly about with him, in order to satiate his appetite whenever it became craving. Of furor UTERINUS, or NYMPHOMANIA. X HIS disease comes on with melancholy, lascivious casting about of the eyes, and frequent sighing; and as it increases the face becomes red and flushed, and the woman makes use of libidinous gestures and speeches, and shews an immoderate desire for coition. . It frequently arises either from inflammation of the pudenda, or from an acrimony in the fluids of the parts. In most instances it ought to be considered as a high degree of hysteria, or as a species of madness. When the disease is the consequence of local inflammation, we must resort to bleeding and cooling laxative medicines, together with refriger- ants, such as nitre, and the topical application of sedative lotions.* Inter- nally we may likewise employ camphor combined with opium.f If it proceeds from acrid matter, the patient must drink plentifully of cooling demulcent liquors. Injections of the same nature may also be thrown up the vagir.a ; the parts be washed with a sedative lotion as just advised, or be anointed with some soothing liniment ;| and opium be ad- ministered in small and frequently repeated doses. The diet is to be cooling and light, consisting principally of vegetables and milk; and every thing that might prove an additional stimulus should be avoided. DEFECTIVE APPETITES. Of a loss of APPETITE, or ANOREXIA. ■I^ WANT of appetite and loathing of food is not usually an original affection, but prevails as a symptom of some other disease^ such as dys- ]J. Aq. Diftillat. §iv. Lithargyr. Acet. gutt.xxv. Tinft. Opii Vinos. guct.xL Fd ^. Aq. Amnion. Acetat. — Diftillat. Spirit. Vin. Rectif. aa ^ij. Tinift. Opii Vinos, gutt. L. M. |- R. Camphor, gr. vj.—xij. Nitri gr. x. Opii gr. fs. Conferv. Rofe q. s. M. ft. Bolus ter quaterve die fiimcn- duf. \ R. Unguent. Sperm. Ceti. '—Cerufs. Acetat. aa Ifs. M. Fel ^ 5!;. Zinci Vitriolat. Cerus. Acetat. aa gr. xv. Adipis SuillEE gfs. Opii Pulv. gfs. M,$