Treatment. — The principal part of the treatment resolves itself into rigid dieting, which should consist in the exclusion of sugar in all its form?, and in the use of animal food, mainly — e. g., meat, eggs, milk. "What to eat, drink, and avoid," becomes almost the business of life, in some cases of diabetes. We may briefly enumerate some rules for the guidance of choice in diet. What to Eat and Drink, — Bran bread, gluten-bread; mutton or beef; poultry, game; ham, sausages, brawn; white- fish,, shell-fish — e. g., oysters, lobsters, crabs; green vegetables MEDICINAL. . 321 and sa ads; water, milk, tea, coffee: claret, sherry, brandy and water. Condiments, e. g., vinegar, pickles, mustard, salt. What to Avoid. — Ordinary bread, potatoes, farinaceous substances generally; sweet fruits and pastry of any kind; malt liquors and sweet wines. These rules of dieting should be rigidly observed by young subjects of diabetes; they may be somewhat relaxed in the cases of aged persons. The surface of the body should be protected by warm flannel undergar- ments; the sponge bath, with brisk friction, should also be employed to promote the circulation in the skin. Medicines. — The only medicine that can be administered with any certainty of benefit is opium. This may be given in the form of pills, half a grain three times a day, or as Dover's powder, five grains three times a day. The dose may be safely, if very cautiously, augmented. DiarrhOBa. — As a symptom of bilious disorder, and as con- stituting the prominent feature of English or Asiatic cholera, this complaint will be found treated of under those heads. There is, however, a common form of the disorder, which appears very often in hot weather, without any other indica- tion, and which, if neglected, will lead to fully-developed cholera, if that disease or its causes be at the time prevalent; while, on the other hand, it is easily arrested if taken in time. Treatment. — For an ordinary attack of diarrhoea— not arising from any known cause, such as irregularity of diet — a dose of the common chalk mixture (one ounce), with a drachm of tincture of catechu, repeated every three or four hours, will generally prove sufficient. If otherwise, three or four drops of creasote, mixed with a teaspoonful of spirits of salvolatile in a wineglass of water, will check it. If the diarrhoea be profuse, and attended with much pain, a single dose of one grain of opium (taken as a pill) will often be sufficient for the purpose of relieving pain and arresting the purging. This dose is for an adult only. Diarrhoea occurring in infants and young children is best controlled by one or two teaspoonfuls of chalk mixture, given after each loose purge. If it prove obstinate, the following will most probably be efficaci- ous: Take a few chips of logwood and boil half an hour in half a pint of water. Mix two ounces of this decoction with half a drachm of powdered alum, and enough powdered sugar to sweeten it, and give a teaspoonful after each action of the bowel Diseases of the Eye. — Ophthalmia (inflammation of the eye). There are several forms of this disease, named accord- ing to the exciting cause of the inflammation. They are seen 2t 3^2 MEDICINAL. in the following forms: Catarrhal; Purulent in children: Purulent in adults; Strumous, or Scrofulous; Rheumatic.

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Treatment. — The principal part of the treatment resolves itself into rigid dieting, which should consist in the exclusion of sugar in all its forms, and in the use of animal food, mainly — e. g., meat, eggs, milk. "What to eat, drink, and avoid," becomes almost the business of life, in some cases of diabetes. We may briefly enumerate some rules for the guidance of choice in diet. What to Eat and Drink, — Bran bread, gluten-bread; mutton or beef; poultry, game; ham, sausages, brawn; whitefish,, shell-fish — e. g., oysters, lobsters, crabs; green vegetables and sa ads; water, milk, tea, coffee: claret, sherry, brandy and water. Condiments, e. g., vinegar, pickles, mustard, salt. What to Avoid. — Ordinary bread, potatoes, farinaceous substances generally; sweet fruits and pastry of any kind; malt liquors and sweet wines. These rules of dieting should be rigidly observed by young subjects of diabetes; they may be somewhat relaxed in the cases of aged persons. The surface of the body should be protected by warm flannel undergarments; the sponge bath, with brisk friction, should also be employed to promote the circulation in the skin. Medicines. — The only medicine that can be administered with any certainty of benefit is opium. This may be given in the form of pills, half a grain three times a day, or as Dover's powder, five grains three times a day. The dose may be safely, if very cautiously, augmented. Diarrhoea. — As a symptom of bilious disorder, and as constituting the prominent feature of English or Asiatic cholera, this complaint will be found treated of under those heads. There is, however, a common form of the disorder, which appears very often in hot weather, without any other indication, and which, if neglected, will lead to fully-developed cholera, if that disease or its causes be at the time prevalent; while, on the other hand, it is easily arrested if taken in time. Treatment. — For an ordinary attack of diarrhoea— not arising from any known cause, such as irregularity of diet — a dose of the common chalk mixture (one ounce), with a drachm of tincture of catechu, repeated every three or four hours, will generally prove sufficient. If otherwise, three or four drops of creasote, mixed with a teaspoonful of spirits of salvolatile in a wineglass of water, will check it. If the diarrhoea be profuse, and attended with much pain, a single dose of one grain of opium (taken as a pill) will often be sufficient for the purpose of relieving pain and arresting the purging. This dose is for an adult only. Diarrhoea occurring in infants and young children is best controlled by one or two teaspoonfuls of chalk mixture, given after each loose purge. If it prove obstinate, the following will most probably be efficacious: Take a few chips of logwood and boil half an hour in half a pint of water. Mix two ounces of this decoction with half a drachm of powdered alum, and enough powdered sugar to sweeten it, and give a teaspoonful after each action of the bowel Diseases of the Eye. — Ophthalmia (inflammation of the eye). There are several forms of this disease, named according to the exciting cause of the inflammation. They are seen 2t in the following forms: Catarrhal; Purulent in children: Purulent in adults; Strumous, or Scrofulous; Rheumatic.

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