The rheumatic diseases (so called) : with original suggestions for more clearly defining them / by Hugh Lane and Charles T. Griffiths.

Date:
1890
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Credit: The rheumatic diseases (so called) : with original suggestions for more clearly defining them / by Hugh Lane and Charles T. Griffiths. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    permanency of the good results obtained. As regards medicinal treatment, chloride of ammo- nium in large doses certainly is most efficacious —in many cases 20, 25, or even 30 grains, three times a day—and seems to he the only drug which exerts anything like a specific action on the pain. Of coui'se, when the sciatica appears due to a general low tone of constitution, associated or not with anaemia, the usual tonic treatment can be added at discretion. Tincture of iodine, painted along the whole of the nerve, is sometimes of great benefit. Shampooing, with a course of hot mineral baths, in those in whom the rheumatic taint is plainly evident, is especially serviceable. EHEUMATIC SORE-THROAT. 7. If the sore-throat appears to be due to irri- tation caused by the blocking of one or more of the follicles of the pharynx, the treatment con- sists in removing the obstruction by means of forcing the end of a director into it, and ex-