Page:Medical Inquiries and Observations Upon the Diseases of the Mind - Benjamin Rush.djvu/220

This page needs to be proofread.
of the Mind.
213

bined with typhus fever, in which state it has been called by Dr. Cullen, typhomania. We see it occasionally in the last stage of the puerperal, the jail, and autumnal fever.


The remedies for this grade of madness should be the same in its inflammatory state as for mania, but of less force. In its typhoid and typhus states, they should be the same as in the declining state of mania, with the addition of garlic in substance or infusion, and the different preparations of iron. In the typhomania, the remedies should be combined with those usually employed in the treatment of typhus fever, particularly bark and opium. The latter is an invaluable medicine in such cases. The dose of it should be much larger than in common diseases of the same grade of action.