Hypodermic injections in the treatment of neuralgia, rheumatism, gout and other diseases / by Antoine Ruppaner.

  • Ruppaner, Antoine, 1825-1892.
Date:
1865
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Credit: Hypodermic injections in the treatment of neuralgia, rheumatism, gout and other diseases / by Antoine Ruppaner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    uterine disease, in rheumatism and gout, in fevers, and lastly, in all cases where pain calls for immediate relief, and where its em- ployment, for some potent reason, is not contra-indicated. But may we not overrate our treatment? Undoubtedly, if we hope to cure at once, by hypodermic injections only, every one who suffers. Sometimes it alone suffices, as in many cases of neuralgia of recent standing, in delirium tremens, in wakeful- ness ; but as for my part, I never omit, be the case what it may, to distinguish between pain and the disease, to relieve that pain by hypodermic injection first, obtaining both the local and remote effect, and then, when my patient is at ease, or, rather, while I keep him at ease, I apply such other reme- dies as my judgment dictates, or which the case may demand. If the patient is infected with a syphilitic taint, or suffering from gastric and intesti- nal irritation, or exhibiting symptoms of