This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1889 edition. Excerpt: ...or blistering the skin, and apply dry flannels over the wet cloths. Change the wet towels every ten or fifteen minutes, when there is much difficulty of breathing; at other times once an hour. In the putrid or malignant form of diphtheria other remedies will often be required, but Merc, prot., Mercurius viv., and Lache&is, are generally very useful during the earlier stages of the disease, and Lachesis at a later period. Then at the commencement of such cases, when the breath is offensive, the extremities cool, and there is great debility, give Mercurius prot. every hour alternately with Rhus. iax, and if, at the end of two or three days, the symptoms are getting worse, omit the Mercurius and give La-chesis alternately with Rhus tax. Arsenicum: If, notwithstanding the use of the above remedies, the symptoms get steadily worse, the breath more offensive, the throat dark and putrid, the extremities cool, omit the Mercurius and give Arsenicum alternately with Lachesis, at intervals of one hour. Carbo veg. may be substituted for Lachesis if the puke becomes vmull or irregular, and the extremities cold. China: This remedy may be given night and morning after the disease is cured, for the debility which it causes. General Direction, Diet, fyc.--A dry, light, and airy room is very important, in this as in almost all other diseases. The patient may wash the mouth and gargle the throat with a tea made by pouring boiling water on dried apples. The diet in all cases of QUINSY. 1ST of inflammation of the throat, except when there is a decided malignant tendency, must be light, consisting of rice water, arrowroot, thin flour gruel, soft boiled rice, or soft toast, if the patient can swallow it without difficulty; to which may be added in malignant cases, ...