Lanterna Rally

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9781230150079

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 edition. Excerpt: ...first sees his patient. Prognosis, from a medical standpoint, is naturally not optimistic, and one at first is led to accept Sir Henry Thompson's view, that medicine has practically no place in the treatment of prostatic hypertrophy. Yet, if one were inclined to be skeptical as to the value of surgery, the host of operations, from the Friedenburg-Bottini and supra-pubic prostatectomy, to castration and ligation of the cord, would probably suggest the unsatisfactory field which surgery has found the enlarged prostate. One then again turns to medicine with the hope, at least, of making the patient "comfortably sick." A great many remedies are used for ameliorating the distressing and annoying conditions, the most prominent of which are a dull pain behind the pubis and frequent urination, especially during the night, in some cases every hour or oftener. The two symptoms alone are sufficient to bring the patient to a deplorable condition mentally and physically. The pain can be relieved by belladonna and opium suppositories, and the vesical irritability by the internal administration of saninetto in teaspoonful doses before meals and at bed-time. Tr. of nux vomica in five to ten minim doses is also of great value for its general tonic effect. Locally, when the urine is distinctly ammoniacal in character, two or three ounces of an aqueous solution of nitric acid, one minim to the ounce, should be injected into the bladder daily, followed by sterilized water. At times several ounces of a solution of nitrate of silver, one to one thousand (1-1000) once or twice a week will prove of greater value. Finally a solution of borax, a teaspoonful to the pint, should be substituted for the more drastic nitric acjd and nitrate of silver. The...