Remarks on the Uses of some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India: With a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India; to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites &c.Waring, Edward John
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Remarks on the Uses of some of the Bazaar Medicines and Common Medical Plants of India: With a full index of diseases, indicating their treatment by these and other agents procurable throughout India; to which are added directions for treatment in cases of drowning, snake-bites &c.
Waring, Edward John
Botany, Medical -- India; Materia medica, Vegetable -- India; Medicinal plants -- India; Traditional medicine -- India
_Datura, Poisoning by swallowing the seeds of, &c._, is to be treated in
the manner directed for Opium poisoning. _Where Insensibility arises
from the Inhalation of the Fumes_, Cold Water Affusion (386) in the open
air often succeeds in removing it at once. The patient should be aroused
by any or all of the means enumerated in poisoning by Opium. The nervous
symptoms may continue for two or three days, and yet recovery follow.
_Debility, Constitutional_, requires the use of the following tonics,
either alone or combined: Chiretta (98, 99*), Sweet Flag Root (12),
Country Sarsaparilla (163), Kariyát (191), Ním Bark (260), or Gulancha
(352). _When attended with Anæmia or great pallor of the surface,
especially of the inner surface of the eyelids and tongue_, Sulphate of
Iron (174) is indicated. The efficacy of all these remedies is increased
by a liberal animal diet, and gentle exercise in the open air. _Debility
after Fevers._ See _Fevers_.
_Delhi Sores._ The Borax Ointment (59) is strongly recommended. See also
_Ulcers_.
_Delirium_ generally is best treated by Evaporating Lotion (380) to the
head, the Mustard Foot Bath (248), or Turpentine Stupes (363) to the
extremities and a strong purgative; _for that occurring in Fevers_, see
_Fevers_.
_Delirium Tremens._ _To relieve sleeplessness and anxiety_, give Opium
and Camphor (283), or better still, Bromide of Potassium, as advised in
_Sleeplessness in Head Affections_. See that article. Try also the
Mustard Foot Bath (248, 249), or the Wet Sheet (397b). _To support the
strength_, give Brandy Mixture (427*) and a nourishing diet.
_Diabetes._ Vapour Baths (396) in the early stages, Alum Whey (27) and
Lime Water (226) internally, with Opium (288), at bedtime, prove
occasionally useful as palliatives. Their operation is assisted by a
full animal diet, with a diminished quantity of rice and other
farinaceous food, and by warm clothing. Use Lemonade as a drink (232).
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