Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1859 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII. DISEASES IN WHICH THE WHITE SULPHUR MAY, OR MAY NOT, BE USEFULLY PRESCRIBED. Dyspepsia--Gastralgia--Water-Brash--Chronic Gastro-Enteritis--Diseases of the Liver--Jaundice--Enlargement of the Spleen--Chronic Irritation of the Bowels--Costiveness--Piles--Diseases of the Urinary Organs--Chronic Inflammation of the Kidneys--Diabetes--Female Diseases: Amenorrhcea, Dismenorrhoea, Chlorosis, Leucorrhoea--Chronic Affections of the Brain--Nervous Diseases--Paralysis--Some forms of Chronic Diseases of the Chest, or Breast Complaints, (to be avoided in Pulmonary Consumption)--Bronchitis--Chronic Diseases of the Skin, Psoariasis, Lepra, Ill-conditioned Ulcers--Rheumatism and Gout--Dropsies--Scrofula--Mercurial Diseases--Erysipelas--Not to be used in Diseases of the Heart, or in Schirrus and Cancer--Chalybeate Spring, etc. All mineral waters, as before remarked, are stimulants to a greater or less degree, and consequently are inapplicable to the treatment of acute, or highly inflammatory diseases. This remark is especially true as relates to the White Sulphur, particularly when drunk fresh at the spring, and abounding in its stimulating gas. It is true, as before shown, that when its exciting gas has flown 11 (125) off, it becomes far less stimulating, and may be used with safety and success in cases to which, in its perfectly fresh state, it would be totally unadapted. But even in its least stimulating form, it is inadmissible for excited or febrile conditions of the system; and especially to cases of inflammatory action--at least, until the violence of such action has been subdued by other and appropriate agents. Various diseases of the stomach, liver, spleen, kidneys, and bladder, as well as some derangements of the brain and nervous...