A compendium of lectures on the theory and practice of medicine / delivered by Professor Chapman ... Prepared ... from Dr. Chapman's manuscripts ... By N. D. Benedict.

  • Chapman, Nathaniel, 1780-1853.
Date:
1846
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Credit: A compendium of lectures on the theory and practice of medicine / delivered by Professor Chapman ... Prepared ... from Dr. Chapman's manuscripts ... By N. D. Benedict. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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    are not to be given, when there is reason to believe in the existence of inflammation, especially of the stomach or brain. Deciding on the use of slinuilants, the following may be resorted to.— Carbonate of Ammonia.—No other stimulant will an- swer so well, or is so generally approved of. From the action upon the skin and other secretory organs, it may be used with less dread in equivocal conditions. It should be given in small quantities, and be frequently repeated. Over-stimulation is much to be guarded against. Admirably co-operative with this medicine is wine whey. They are generally prescribed together. The efi'ect, however, of the carbonate of ammonia wearing off, as is speedily the case, with all the diffusible stimuli, recourse may be had to Camphor.—Dr. Chapman has always used it in connexion with opium and ipecacuanha, and rather doubts its utility when used alone. Vapour Bath.—To be used if the skin is cold or dry, or the temperature unequally diffused. The production of a halitus from the skin is preferable to a sweat,—the good effect resulting from the change in the condition of the capillaries. Should the vapour bath stimulate too highly, and create jactitation, we should substitute sponging with tepid vinegar, or spirits and water, which often has the best effects. Epispastics. — Cotemporaneously, or antecedently to the course just mentioned, should be used the epispastics, which not being called for by local affection, should be applied to the extremities. Dr. Chapman, by retaining them only to the pro- duction of rubescence, avoids strangury, sloughing ulcers, and other detriments. The Sulphate of (Iuinine.—An excellent remedy, and particularly useful, when the disease is of a miasmatic source, or shows a tendency to remission. A neiD stage of the disease now calls for a upao class of means. Opium.—Used in small doses, it is a general stimulant, but its chief value consists in the relief of low delirium, nervous tremors, subsultus tendinum, mental and corporeal distress induced by morbid vigilance, anxiety, and restlessness; and 5