The botanic family friend: being a complete guide to the new system of Thomsonian medical practice .. by House E. G. (Eleazer G.) 1780?-1849

Author:House, E. G. (Eleazer G.), 1780?-1849
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Medicine, Botanic
Publisher: Boston, Printed for the author
Published: 1844-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

difficulties are removed. This may be effected by a course of medicine without danger.

He had a case of an elderly gentleman, who had been confined to the house, and much of the time to his bed, for seven weeks with the piles. He had been in the hands of seven different doctors, before Dr. Thomson was applied to, and had been continually growing worse. They had performed an operation upon him, and said they must perform another. The side they had operated upon took much longer to effect a cure than the other. He began with the patient in the usual way, and carried him through two courses of medicine in three days, when he was able to go out of doors. Injections were given him, composed of bayberry bark and lily root, made into a strong tea, to which was added a small quantity of cayenne. Warm tallow was applied several times during the day, and often washing externally with the above tea. Tonics were given to strengthen the di-gesture and restore the appetite, which was in a very low state. The sores healed in a short time, and he soon gained his general health, and was never after troubled with that complaint.

While practicing at Eastport, he had the following case. A man had the tine of a pitchfork stuck into one of his eyes. It passed by the eye-ball and penetrated considerably into the skull bone, so that it required quite an exertion to pull it out. The eye swelled and closed up immediately. The man was carried through a regular course of medicine as soon as possible, at the same time several thicknesses of cloths, wet with cold water were applied to the wound, which was kept wet and not removed for twelve hours; and the perspiration kept up the whole time. On removing the cloths, there was a 13*

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