Cholera Infantum –
Two cases.
By Eugene
Beauharnais NASH, M.D.
Presented by Sylvain Cazalet
Dr Eugène
Beauharnais NASH
(1838-1917)
1. Bismuth
:
Young child ; nursing cow’s milk, from a bottle ; painless
offensive stools ; profuse and frequent. Vomits large quantities.
Wants to nurse all the time but vomit immediately after. Great
prostration, paleness and listlessness, surface warm- Bismuth
cured.
2. Kreosote :
Child about 2 years was
suddenly attacked with diarrhœa and vomiting. There was a painful
swollen condition of gums at the same time, which might have acted as
the existing and almost immediate vomiting. Stools extremely offensive
and brownish ; great increasing prostration ; very restless,
continual tossing and moaning, sometimes dozing with half open eyes,
child cannot sleep except when caressed, fondled or gently smoothing its
face or body with the hand.All this condition of
things is found under Kreosote (see
Bell). Ars., Bismuth, Veratrum and
other remedies had been tried but failed, because Kreosote was the only
remedy and in the 200th potency quickly cured. Why did I not give it at
first ? For the same reason that you do not always hit the right
remedy the first time. One symptom I have omitted and the one that first
called my attention to the remedy, viz., very painful dentition. The
child complained bitterly all the time of the pain in its gums. This led
me to examine Kreosote, where I
found the whole case covered.
Source :
Medical Advance, 1881.
Copyright © Sylvain
Cazalet 2000
