A treatise on the sympathetic relation between the stomach and the brain ... in the causation and cure of diseases. With an appendix ... on certain points connected with the treatment of chronic disease and it's [sic] attendant debility / by Charles Wightman.

Date:
1840
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Credit: A treatise on the sympathetic relation between the stomach and the brain ... in the causation and cure of diseases. With an appendix ... on certain points connected with the treatment of chronic disease and it's [sic] attendant debility / by Charles Wightman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    small and continued for a considerable time, for I deem it unsafe,—injudicious,—to exhibit this for such a purpose in doses of two or three grains frequently in the course of the day. One grain thrice a day is a limit which, with this view, ought never to be exceeded, and from half a grain, or in some cases even a smaller dose, I believe that much more benefit is in general to be expected from this elegant medicine, in the conditions of the system to which I have alluded. In the larger doses of two and three grains often exhibit- ed, instead of the gently invigorating influence which it produces upon the stomach in small doses repeated in the manner now stated, it exerts a stimulant operation on the system, as is ma- nifested in the heat, thirst and restlessness which the patient experiences; and therefore in it’s exhibi- tion in convalescence from acute disease, or in the treatment of chronic disease, the regulation of it’s doses demands the strictest care and attention. These observations on the doses of the disulphate of quinaare notin theremotestdegree applicable to it’s exhibition in the cure of intermitent fever. For ✓V this, larger doses, at proper intervals, I do not forget, are required to arrest the expected parox- ysm ; for in this disease it does not operate by it’s tonic property either on the stomach or the sys-