The Treatment of Lobar Pneumonia with Intravenous Injections of Alcohol
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(1) Acute and chronic lung diseases.?True acute pneumonia (indication for alcoholic treatment is rare in view of the usual favourable course of the disease); pneumonia of old people or as a result of injuries ending in sepsis (prognosis often hopeless); lung abscess (useful as an adjunct, but its use docs not exclude surgical interference which remains the only effective treatment); influenzal broncho-pneumonias (good effect); following shock and post-operative pulmonary complications (brilliant and rapid results). (2) Septicaemias.?Puerperal and all other types of septicaemias. (3) Acute barbituric intoxications.?It will be seen from the above that the indications for intravenous alcohol are varied and, as Hetroy has remarked, they can be further extended. It is evident that they can be employed with success in all_ cases where alcohol by mouth is indicated and where its oral use is coniraindicated (operations on the stomach). For example, it may be used in debilitating types of influenza and fractures of the thigh, in old people to combat hypostatic congestion (the author has had several cases of this type), in all infections where pulmonary complications are feared, in cardiac cases with chronic venous congestion and, finally, in all cases where infection is present or imminent. Contra-indications.?The chief one is when the method is withheld too late. In advanced liver, kidney
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دوره 71 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1936