Download or read book Quarterly Epitome of American Practical Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 21 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Quarterly Epitome of American Practical Medicine and Surgery, Vol. 21: Supplementary to Braithwaite's Retrospect; Containing a Retrospective View of Every Discovery and Practical Improvement in the Medical Sciences, Abstracted From the Current Medical Journals of the United States and Canada; March 1885 Turpentine is used for the relief of abdominal tympanites and as a cardiac stimulant and hemostatic in hemorrhage from the bowels. For the latter I use one single dose of a dessertspoonful and a full dose of opium. Digitalis is occasionally indicated to correct cardiac irregularity and intermittency of pulse, and has in these cases, where frequency of ulse, without other alarm ing coexistent symptoms, indicated great illness, one much good. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.