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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 edition. Excerpt:... 54 Camphor. Dr. C. L. Mitchell seems 3 to have given the ergot with great success in some severe cases. In one the patient, who never passed three nights consecutively without an emission, and who generally had three emissions within the six hours, had become almost entirely incapable of attending to business. He was immediately relieved and ultimately quite cured by the daily use of thirty to sixty grains. In another case the patient, who was also an opium eater, had become almost imbecile. The emissions were however entirely arrested within seven days from the beginning of the treatment. In a third, the patient was also suffering from irritable bladder and spasmodic stricture, but ten-grain doses of the ergot and three of camphor, every three hours, relieved him almost immediately. Sedatives.--(a.) Camphor is often of great service in checking that form of spermatorrhoea which is apt to ensue in some irritable persons after an attack of gonorrhoea; it is likewise useful in recent and sudden outbreaks of the malady, and even in chronic cases, though occasionally it is not to be relied upon, it is often of great value. A gentleman, a surgeon, who sent his brother to me for this complaint, informed me that the constant use of the camphor alone had worked a complete and lasting cure, although the case was a very bad one. The patient resided in a distant part of Russia, where he could get no medicine except the spirit of camphor, of which he contrived to import two or three large bottles. He took it constantly in large doses for quite three years, and recovered so completely that he ventured to marry, a step of which he had previously entertained the greatest dread. When used, it may be given in doses of half a drachm to a drachm of the...