In protracted chills, where the patient is in a stupor, the third preparation of Lobelia should be freely given, with the application of external warmth and friction to the surface with a view of bringing on a reaction. When there is unconsciousness, any preparation of Lobelia may be freely given via the bowels by the use of the Internal Bath or Murphy Drip.
Emetics administered in the early period of scarlet fever will frequently exert a powerful influence in moderating the violence, and in shortening the duration of this dreaded disease.
In bleeding from the lungs the effect of the operation is to attract blood from the lungs and diffuse it through the system by which the bleeding will be checked. Warm foot baths, or
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the vapor bath should be employed to aid in restoring the natural equilibrium of the circulation of the blood.
In bleeding from the stomach, in which blood will be raised by vomiting, the employment of active emetics are indicated, not only to dislodge accumulations of blood in the stomach, which may have oppressed its energies, but to cause a distribution of the blood throughout the system, and to strengthen the weakened capillary vessels of the mucous membrane of the stomach. The third preparation of Lobelia given freely, together with the application of the vapor bath when possible, is generally successful in the treatment of bleeding from the stomach, and it is not known ever to have failed in checking the hemorrhage.
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