Cardiac Asthenia, or Heart-Exhaustion (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Cardiac Asthenia, or Heart-ExhaustionAmong drugs strychnine stands pro-eminent. It is suitable to both the forms of weak heart under discussion. The dose need not be large -rarely exceeding one-thirtieth of a grain three times daily - but it must be continuous. Iron is not called for except when a complica tion with anaemia exists, or later in the case as a general tonic, and its tendency to constipate makes it often a doubtful remedy. Arsenic, in the nervous astbenic heart, comes next to strychnine. Its action cannot be explained by its removing anremia, for it proves to be valuable where the blood~count shows this not to exist. I have the record of one case in which the patient, who also su¿ered from hay asthma, began its use for the cure of this, and. Finding the amenic very strengthening to his heart, continued it of his own accord for four months, in doses of one hundredth of a grain of arsenite of sodium three times daily, with the greatest benefit to his general health and a permanent removal of the heart symptoms.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.