. Diseases of the nervous system . POLYNEURITIS 827 The diet is very important. When at all possible it should be plentifuland very nutritious, which in the early stages, especially of infectious poly-neuritis is not always possible. Milk is advised by Edinger,1 as well as but-ter, bacon, lipanin, in fact a diet rich in fat. Sometimes nourishment bymeans of the stomach tube may be necessary as in diphtheritic deglutition-paralysis. In the diabetic form, a diet to combat the underlying malady oftengives marvelous results. Oppenheim also advises diaphoresis in polyneuritis the same as in ne
. Diseases of the nervous system . POLYNEURITIS 827 The diet is very important. When at all possible it should be plentifuland very nutritious, which in the early stages, especially of infectious poly-neuritis is not always possible. Milk is advised by Edinger,1 as well as but-ter, bacon, lipanin, in fact a diet rich in fat. Sometimes nourishment bymeans of the stomach tube may be necessary as in diphtheritic deglutition-paralysis. In the diabetic form, a diet to combat the underlying malady oftengives marvelous results. Oppenheim also advises diaphoresis in polyneuritis the same as in robust patients hot baths should be used; in others hot packs, or heatedair with hot drinks, and perhaps by the administration of diphoretics suchas aspirin. Such diaphoresis may be employed daily for from 1-2 in severe and chronic cases Oppenheim has obtained brilliant results bythese means. Naturally watchfulness, in this method of treatment is neces-sary. It is supposed to remove, by excretion, the toxic pr
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