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. 1842. Excerpt: ... LECTURE L. DR. BELL. Treatment Of Diseases Of The Spleen.--Remedies for acute splenitis the same as for other phlegmasias--Mercury in general inadmissible--Avoidance of extreme views and practice--Sedative narcotics useful--Free purging in enlargements of the spleen, or chronic splenitis; to be followed or alternated with chalybeates--Mr. Twining's plan of treatment--Spleen mixture--Addition of sulphate of quinia--Venesection and cupping, or leeching, occasionally directed before the use of chalybeates--Salutary crisis by hemorrhages--Native (Bengalese) remedies for diseased spleen; chiefly aloes and iron, with occasionally castor oil--Acupuncture--Enlarged spleen with intermittent and remittent fevers, requires sulphate of quinia--Great utility of this medicine--Iron in other varieties of tumid spleen--Connexion between spleen cachexia and chlorosis, scurvy, and anemia.--Chlorosis--Its real nature--Depending on impoverished blood--Changes in the blood at this time--Causes--Symptoms--Means of renovation--Iron, the chief medicinal agent--Hygienic restorativesHemorrhages do not always contraindicate the use of iron. Treatment Of Diseases Of The Spleen.--Acute splenitis is treated like other phlegmasiae, by venesection, cups over the left hypochondrium and lumbar region, or leeches on the same place, followed by blisters and purgatives. But by far the most common form of spleen disease which you will be called upon to treat, is chronic splenitis, with more or less enlargement of the organ, blended or alternating with congestion, in varying degree. It may be the consequence of acute inflammation; but it is generally primary, and coexists with derangement of some imporlant function, either that of digestion or of circulation. The primary means for reducing swe...