Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1888 — The Latest About Bright’s Disease. [ARTICLE]

The Latest About Bright’s Disease.

Some recent investigations of Bright’s disease by M. Semmola have led him to advise strongly against allowing a patient to come into contact with cold in any avoidable way, for such patients are excessively sensitive to cold, and cold baths are followed by great shock and depression; violent massage and exercise of the muscles are also strongly to be deprecated, as followed by great .shock and weakness. M. Semmola emphasizes the remarkable sensibility of the skin of a sufferer from this disease to all variations of temperature, the desirableness, therefore, of living in a dry and equable climate, the necessity of avoiding strictly all exposure or going about in severe winter weather, and the benefit to be derived from practicing mßd gymnastics in a comfortable room rather than venture into a temperature below eighteen or twenty Cent. So--dium, iodide, and chloride are proved to be beneficial in doses as large as tolerated; and when, after two or three weeks, albumen has not entirely disappeared and dropsy has been relieved, phosphates of sodium or calcium are efficacious in quantities as large as forty grains or a drachm daily; the methodical inhalation of oxgygen has also been repeatedly proved to be of the highest benefit.