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When the convulsion has occurred, bleed at once, then give the following brisk cathartic.
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℞ Hydrargyri chloridi mitis....................gr. x
Pulveris jalapae.......gr. xx
M. For one powder. Take at once. If she is comatose,
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℞ Elaterii..........gr. 1/4
Dissolve in a little butter and place it upon the back of the tongue. Repeat this every half an hour until active cartharsis. To arrest and prevent convulsions, administer chloroform by inhalation. - Prof. F. Barker.
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℞ Potassii bromidi.......3 ss
Chloralis.............................................gr. xx
M. Every four or six hours.
- Prof. W. S. Playfair.
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℞ Extracti jaborandi fluidi.....3 ss
Every half hour. - Dr. B. B. Brown.
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℞ Potassii bromidi........gr. xl
Antimonii et potassae tartratis . . gr. ss Give at once, followed every hour or two with
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℞ Potassii bromidi........gr. x
Antimonii et potassae tartratis............gr. ss Until six doses are taken. - Simmons.
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℞ Pilocarpinae..........gr. iij
Chloralis............gr. x
M. For one dose. - Bidder.
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℞ Chloralis hydratis.......3 xvj
Potassii bromidi.........℥ j
Tincturae opii deodoratae.....3 iv
Aquae.............℥ iijss
M. S. Dessertspoonful in a tablespoonful of water every three hours.
- Dr. Theodore Trumbull.
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℞ Tincturae aconiti.........3 j
S. One to two drops every 10 or 15 minutes for the first hour, then at longer interval.
- Phillips.
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℞ Tincturae stramonii.......℥ j
S. One drachm every 15 minutes until four or five doses are taken, then the medicine is continued at intervals of four hours for four doses. - Dr. R. H. Salter.
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Keep the patient under the gentle influence of chloroform, and in every possible way hurry the labor. - Dr. Edmund R. Peaslee.
 
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