This section is from the book "Materia Medica And Therapeutics Inorganic Substances", by Charles D. F. Phillips. Also available from Amazon: Materia medica and therapeutics.
In these affections, tartar emetic was a usual remedy some years ago, and doubtless acted by abating local congestion; modern practice, however, places more reliance on the use of topical remedies and of tonics.
 
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