United States medical investigator Author:Unknown Author Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of difficulty, as it was impossible to insert a small sized speculum, the swelling was so great), I used a large sized syringe closely pressed into the orifice o... more »f the external car, as recommended by Dr. Winslow,andon exhausting the air therefrom, succeeded in drawing a small quantity of pus from the ear, and re-established the discharge, to the great relief of the patient who has been gradually improving from that time, but is exceedingly deaf, a condition which I have no doubt could have been averted had the case received good treatment from the first. It is impossiple to outline the remedies, which will be needed in successfully combating, this disease and its complications. The general condition of the patient will largely determine the medicines appropriate for the local condition. When there are no especial reasons for making other selections, the remedies most used by me, in these cases are in the order of their importance, Mer. iod. 3x, Kali iod. 2x; and Hepar sul. 3x; other remedies such as Calc. carb., Calc. phos., Silicea, China, etc., are frequently of value; and in nms- toid complications Rhus tox., Ars., Nit. acid or Bell., may be indicated. A CASE OF CATARRHAL FEVER. BY E. W. CLARK', M. D., NEENAH, WIS. Read before the Wisconsin State Homoeopathic Medical Association. Early in January, 1881,1 found Mr. P. V. L., Sr., a man nearly fifty years of age, of bilious nervous temperment. of active business habits, suffering from what appeared to be catarrhal fever. After three days of treatment he resumed business, seeming to be well. Being called again to see him on the 27th, or 28th, ofthe same month, he presented the following symptons: Chilliness nearly all the time, neuralgic pains constantly changing location, and of considerable severity; anxious...« less