The importance of general therapeutics in the treatment of ocular diseases : an address delivered in the Section on Opthalmology of the American Medical Association, at the fifty-fifth annual session, June, 1904 / by A. Maitland Ramsay, M.D.

  • Ramsay, A. Maitland (Andrew Maitland), 1859-1946.
Date:
1905
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    wholly to milk and water for the first forty-eight hours of the treatment, and then to add gradu- ally meat-soups, eggs, fish, fowl, rice, etc., as the tongue becomes clean. In addition to the careful supervision of diet, the free elimination of the toxins, which, as a result of mal-assimilation, have accumulated in the blood, must in every way be promoted. This is to be accomplished by stimulating the action of the kidneys, the bowels, and the skin —more especially the last. Hence the import- ance of the hot bath, which the child should have every night at bed-time, diaphoresis being further encouraged by the wearing of a warm flannel nightgown. It is usually advisable first of all to administer a dose of castor-oil; but it should be borne in mind that many of these children do not bear purgatives well, as the intestinal mucous membrane is so irritable that troublesome diarrhoea is easily induced. Of druo-s, none is so useful as tartar emetic, which should be given, as Mackenzie advised, in slightly nauseating doses. Its chief virtue depends on its diaphoretic action, and its effi- cacy is greatly increased when it is administered with a laxative, e.g. powdered rhubarb. If the