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The Year-book of treatment for 1884-1899 v.1, 1884
The Yearbook of treatment for 18841899 v1 1884 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: DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. By A. De Watteville, M.D., B.Sc., Physician to the Electro-therapeutical Department, St. Mary't Hospital. 1. On the admini... more »stration of the bromides. Dr. Erlenmeyer (Centralblatt fur Nerven-Krankheiten, Sept., 1884, p. 411) gives the results of several years' experimentation as to the best method of administering the bromides. He finds that the potassium, sodium, and ammonium salts have a greater efficacy when exhibited together in the proportion of 1, 1, £ respectively. The best vehicle is an alkaline water charged with carbonic acid, such as Vichy water. A good preparation is that made by Carbach, of Bendorf, near Coblenz, which contains ten drachms of the bromides in 750 cc. (1 cc. = 17 minims) of carbonic soda-water, to which one drop of strong ammonia is added. Erlenmeyer begins with half a bottle of this preparation daily (with the meals), and increases the dose to a whole bottle, but never gives more. When the patient is thoroughly under the influence of the drug, he reduces the dose to one half for three days, then suspends it altogether for a few days, during which he orders a tonic regimen with baths, under the influence of which the patient recovers his strength. A series of such courses, extending over months or years, may be safely resorted to in cases of epilepsy, sick headache (the author relates successes obtained by him), and in various forms of hysterical neurasthenic disturbances, where, however, the treatment need not be so severe as in the more serious neuroses. 2. Electricity in mental disorders. Dr. A. Robertson (Journal of Mental Science, April, 1884) cites the case of a woman fifty years old, who came into hospital in a condition of depression with hallucinations and delusions of suspicion. These had existed...« less