The Practitioner. May, 1869.: A Monthly Journal of TherapeuticsVarious
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The Practitioner. May, 1869.: A Monthly Journal of Therapeutics
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=Liebig’s Food for Infants.=—Dr. Kjelberg related to the _Gesellschaft
schwedischer Aerzte_ his experience of the use of Liebig’s food for
infants as a remedy. Six cases of diarrhœa occurred in the Children’s
Hospital among infants of from 1½ to 2 years; five of them had already
been treated with medicine without effect. A thin broth made from the
“food” was given them as their only nourishment, and all medicine was
discontinued. The motions at once assumed a better appearance. In one
case, which had no previous treatment, the effect of the exclusive use
of Liebig’s food was very striking. Kjelberg says that he had used the
treatment in two cases of children, private patients, in whom not
diarrhœa, but obstinate constipation was the malady. The children were
still suckled, while the food was administered. The peristaltic function
of the bowels rapidly became normal and regular. Kjelberg thinks that
Liebig’s food possesses the capacity of _regulating_ the activity of the
intestinal canal. (_Ibid._)
=Hypodermic Injection of Ergotin in the Treatment of
Aneurism.=—Professor Langenbeck writes an important paper on this
subject. From the well-known influence of ergot in provoking
contractions of the organic muscular film of the uterus, he was led to
think that a similar stimulation might be produced by it, with
beneficial effect, in the muscular coats of arteries in cases of
aneurism. The first case in which he employed it was one of subclavian
aneurism in a man aged 45. The tumour was treated in the first place on
Jacobson’s plan, with the repeated application of moxas, and a great
diminution of all the symptoms took place, and lasted for three years;
but the pulsation continued. In consequence (as the patient thought) of
an excessive summer heat, a relapse took place, the tumour enlarged
greatly, and all the old symptoms returned. Three centigrammes of
aqueous extract of secale were injected over the tumour, with great
relief to the pain and consequent insomnia. Between January 6 and
February 17 about 30 grains of ergotin were injected, with the effect of
so greatly relieving the symptoms of pressure in veins, that the pain
and paralysis of the arm and hand were diminished to a remarkable
extent. The pulsations of the aneurism were also sensibly weakened, and
the tumour somewhat sunken. In a second case—one of aneurism of the
radial, about an inch and a quarter above the wrist, and which had
existed for many years—about 1/4th of a grain of aqueous extract of
secale (dissolved in seven times its bulk of half and half glycerine and
sp. rectif.) was injected into the skin above the tumour, and on the
following day the tumour appeared to have vanished. The cure became
permanent, and the only trouble was a local erythematous inflammation
which lasted some days. Langenbeck discovers that it was natural that a
more powerful effect should be produced by the remedy in radial than in
subclavian aneurism, since the radial artery is more copiously furnished
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