Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley.

  • Bardsley, James Lomax, 1801-1876.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Hospital facts and observations : illustrative of the efficacy of the new remedies, strychnia, brucia, acetate of morphia, veratria, iodine, &c. in several morbid conditions of the system : with a comparative view of the treatment of chorea, and some cases of diabetes : a report on the efficacy of sulphureous fumigations in diseases of the skin, chronic rheumatism, &c. / by James Lomax Bardsley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    She had a slight cough with laborious respiration. A blister was applied to the chest; and a mucila- ginous mixture prescribed for the cough. She was directed to use animal food only, with an allowance of tea in the afternoon; and to take three grains of opium in the form of pill, each night, at bed time. Owing to her great debility, it was not thought advisable to employ the warm bath. In the course of three weeks the cough had completely disap- peared ; the quantity of urine had decreased to twenty-one pints in the twenty-four hours, and the diarrhoea had yielded to the opiate pill. This im- provement, however, was but of short continuance, for the difficulty of breathing suddenly became more distressing, considerable effusion occurred in the legs and thighs ; and death terminated her sufferings on the 2d of April. On a post-mortem examina- tion of the body the following appearances were noticed. The brain and its membranes were in a healthy condition. On raising the sternum, a dense layer of coagulable lymph was detected upon the pleura pulmonalis in both cavities; and a firm ad- hesion existed between the costal and pulmonary pleura at the upper part of the right side of the chest. The lungs themselves were quite sound. Nine ounces of fluid were found in the left cavity of the thorax, and four in the right. The quantity of liquor pericardii was about an ounce. Gall bladder, distended with bile. Liver somewhat larger, and of a firmer consistence than natural. Spleen and uri-