On a new preparation for allaying irritation of the actively secreting mammary glands / by Hugh Miller.

  • Miller, Hugh, active 1881.
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[1877]
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Credit: On a new preparation for allaying irritation of the actively secreting mammary glands / by Hugh Miller. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ON A NEW PREPARATION FOR ALLAYING IRRITATION OF THU ACTIVELY SECRETING MAMMARY GLANDS. By HUGH MILLER, M.D. PHTSICIAN-ACCOTTCHETJK, GLASGOW LYING-IN HOSPITAL. {Reprinted from the Edinburgh Medical Jowm d for December 1877.) The treatment of the breasts by an application of the active principle of either the belladonna leaf or root is not a new proposal. As far as I have been able to ascertain, it was introduced to the notice of the profession in the Dublin Medical Journal of 1834. Since then, one or two short notices of its value in affection of the mam m re have been contributed to the journals. In 1860, Dr Marley gave a statement of his views on the efficacy of the drug for this purpose to the Obstetrical Society of London. While belladonna was generally recognised by these authors as a reliable local sedative m the treatment of painful affections of these glands, it remained lor Dr Fordyce Barker, in his excellent work on Puerperal Disease, to point out more clearly its value in acute affections. In us experience, belladonna not only relieves the pain resulting trom the tension of the tissues, but from its power of relaxing muscular fibre, it seems to allow a more free exit of milk by dilating the lactiferous tubes; and within a few years past, it lias ecTet on 1^?^ the of a^stinS the lacteal ,nnW' f i ltlus 1 am cerfcam' thafc ifc is a most valuable app icat.on to the breast m glandular mastitis, and I have used it tor this purpose for more than twenty years1 in whioWnLn Whi0h .the PreParati°n has been applied, are those in which acute congestion occurs in the mammary glands when 1 Page 158.