Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine

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Chorea St. Viti. * This disease has been referred to a loss of Tone and consequent Spasm and accordingly was treated with tonics and antispasmodics. Dr Hamilton was the first to desert that practice. The time necessary to perform a cure varies 3, 4, to 6 months. I once cured a patient by the continuance of cathartics for 6 months, he is now 16 years of age and has not had a return, those who were not cured had the symptoms completely removed while under the operation of a cathartic. No.1

** Typhus. He formerly treated it with nauseating doses of antimonials, but finding it not to succeed he resorted to purgatives with the happiest effects, giving Calomel & Jalap to evacuate largely, thus morbid matter which is always found pent up in the canal and of a highly irritating nature is evacuated.

The following is an excellent formula in chorea. No.1 Rx Rubig Ferri ℈ij [2 scruples] Precep Sulp Antim ℈i [1 scruple] Soccot Alloes Ʒi [1 dram] Syrup Q.S [sufficient quantity]

M. 24 pills of which take two every night. (Townsend)