Medical suggestions for the treatment of dysentery of intermittent and remittent fevers, as generally prevalent at certain seasons among troops in the field / by Edmund Sigismond Somers, M.D.

  • Somers, Edmund Sigismund, approximately 1759-1824.
Date:
1816
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Credit: Medical suggestions for the treatment of dysentery of intermittent and remittent fevers, as generally prevalent at certain seasons among troops in the field / by Edmund Sigismond Somers, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    it 57 the Hospital and repeated the Venoesec- tion and Pulv. Doveri; vesperi Magnes sulph. nocte Haust. Anodyn.; on the morning of the 8th his Dysenteric symp- toms were much relieved, his Fever much less; habeat Haustum Prophylacti- cum; vesperi Bolum exHydrarg. submur. gr. iij Opii gr. tf nocte haust. anod. On the morning of the 9th he was much bet-* ter, had only two stools in the course of the night; griping and tenesmus very trifling, and to my no small astonishment, he had no return of his Intermittent; Repr Magnes. Sulp. et nocte haustus anod. 10th morning had a goodnight, and his stools, cc which were only two, hard and scanty; he had no return of Intermittent, his 11 cheeks were a little flushed, pulse full but soft: (his diet throughout was strictly antiphlogistic) I repeated his laxative Medicine in small quantities, Haust. Anod. H. S. Morning 11th convalescent,