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.
Dr. Pepper has recorded fifty cases of typhoid fever in which, after the second week, the medicinal treatment was nitrate of silver (1/4 gr.), with small quantities of belladonna and opium; only one case was fatal, and he considers that these remedies act favorably by limiting follicular catarrh and modifying its secondary effects (Boston-Journal, October, 1877).
 
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