Clinical observations on the use of opium in low fevers, and in the synochus : illustrated by cases : with some previous remarks on the epidemic fever, which prevailed in 1785 at Oxford, and in the neighbouring counties : in a letter to John Badeley, M.D. ... / by Martin Wall, M.D.

  • Wall, Martin, 1747-1824.
Date:
1786
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Credit: Clinical observations on the use of opium in low fevers, and in the synochus : illustrated by cases : with some previous remarks on the epidemic fever, which prevailed in 1785 at Oxford, and in the neighbouring counties : in a letter to John Badeley, M.D. ... / by Martin Wall, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the leaft fign of intellect or reafon. As fo little time was apparently remaining to us, I fuggefted the ufe of opium ; and the gentle- man abovementioned, whofe candour is a dif- tinguiming part of his character, acquiefced readily in the neceiTary experiment. We ordered Tincl. Theb. gutt. xxy in a draught of Julep, e Camph. every fixth hour. He took two dofes before our evening vifit; and as it apparently foothed the agitation of his fyftem, and produced a calm, which had been unknown for fome time, we were en- couraged to repeat it. He took another dofe at midnight. And about two or three in the morning, he was attacked with a violent fpafm, fucceeded by convulfions: the agita- tion of the nervous fyftem was renewed : after this time he could fwallow nothing, and died the evening of the next day. Dif- couraged by this trial we were unwilling to ufe the fame medicine with the reft of the family, but purfued a cordial antifeptic plan, with bark, camphor, ferpentaria, &c. and occafionally employing lenient cathartics. After a very long confinement they all gra- dually recovered, but without any obvious figns of a crifis.