New remedies : with formulae for their administration

Front matter

-

\ I B

*

Preface To The Sixth Edition

The last few years have been rich in valuable gifts to Therapeutics; and amongst these, ether, chloroform, and other so called anaesthetics, are worthy of special attention. They have been introduced since the appearance of the last edition of the " JVevj Remedies." Other articles have been proposed for the first time, and the experience of observers has added numerous interesting facts to our knowledge of the virtues of remedial agents previously employed. To include all these, it has been necessary to add very greatly to the dimensions of the present edition.

The therapeutical agents now first admitted into this work, some of which have been newly introduced into pharmacology, and the old agents brought prominently forward with novel applications, and which may consequently be regarded as New Remedies, are the following: — Adansonia digitata, Benzoate of Ammonia, Valerianate of Bismuth, Sulphate of Cadmium, Chloroform, Collodion, Cantharidal Collodion, Cotyledon Umbilicus, Sulphuric Ether, Strong Chloric Ether, Compound Ether, Hura Braziliensis, Iberis Amara, Iodic Acid, Iodide of Chloride of Mercury, Powdered Iron, Citrate of Magnetic Oxide of Iron, Citrate of Iron and Magnesia, Sulphate of Iron and Alumina, Tannate of Iron, Valerianate of Iron, Nitrate of Lead, Lemon Juice, Citrate of Magnesia, Salts of Manganese, Oleum Cadinum, Arsenite of Quinia, Hydriodate of Iron and Quinia, Sanicula Marilandica, and Sumbul.

IV PREFACE.

To increase the practical value of the work to the therapeutical inquirer, the author has added to the Index of Diseases the particular pages in which the various remedies prescribed in those diseases are referred to.

ROBLEY DUNGLISON.

Philadelphia, 18 Girard St., March, 1851.

Electro -Magnetismus. Since the above was written, the author has received a work by Dr. Froriep, 1 of Berlin, in which he gives cases of good effects produced by Electro-Magnetism, in "rheumatic effusions spread over the body" — acute, subacute and chronic; in hemiplegia rheumatica, rheumatic neuralgia, rheumatic facial palsy, spasmodic contractions of the muscles of the face, writers' cramp, rheumatic paralysis of the forearm, hip, muscles of the thigh and leg, &c, &c. He rarely employed any remedial agency along with it, being desirous of ascertaining, without the possibility of doubt, its real effect. Currents were transmitted through the medium of sponges saturated with salt and water, and applied to the skin, or by acupuncturation, when it was requisite to act energetically on parts deeply seated, by introducing two needles of platinum in the course of a nerve. Dr. Froriep's testimony is highly confirmative of the good effects ascribed to Electro-Magnetism in certain diseases, in the body of this work. 2

1 On the Therapeutic application of Electro-Magnetism in the Treatment of Rheumatic and Paralytic Affections. By Robert Froriep, Doctor in Medicine and Surgery, Public Professor of General Surgery in the University of Berlin, &c., &c, &c. Translated from the German by Richard Moore Lawrance, M. D., Surgeon-Extraordinary to H. R. H. the Duke of Saxe Coburg and Gotha. London, 1850.

a See page 296.