Essays on the origin, progress and treatment of dysentery and erysipelas : to which is added an enquiry into the nature, causes and treatment of pseudo buboes / by James Bankier.

  • Bankier James.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Essays on the origin, progress and treatment of dysentery and erysipelas : to which is added an enquiry into the nature, causes and treatment of pseudo buboes / by James Bankier. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    iicconiplishing such a desirable object, then is the time for our aid, but even with timely interference, we may- observe her coming to the rallying point, and then sud- denly sinking below par, so that all the medicines in our pharmacopeia cannot restore the injured power of the body, nor even bring them partially into play. Now at a low ebb she may go on for some days but at length irretrievably sinks—thus she sinks from the shock of di- minution. We will meet with cases which will excite our astonishment in the vitality being kept up so long, nay, may after a time completely recover, this, however, seldom in a hot climate, particularly where there is con- siderable variation of temperature. How often has she been observed puzzled in other diseases: let those speak who have seen many cases of Cholera, or syphilis, where in the former, instances may be met with, of patients to all appearance dead, nay, put in their coffins, at length recovering; and in the latter disease we see at times that the undermining destructive work goes on, in defiance of all our remedies, until the destruction of an eye, nose, or some other important object is accomplished, then and not till then, will she condescend to stop her mu- tilating career, and at length allow us to aid her, with either general or local remedies, or both. Dysentery sometimes commences with depraved ap- petite, nausea, and vomiting, but more frequently with all the appearances of simple purging, accompanied with occasional gripingpain, and followed by tenesmus. Authors have described the stools as commonly copious and ex- crementatious at first, and on the second day, or shortly after, they become small, watery, and slimy, attended with tenesmus. Now in such instances as these the disease is as yet only a local complaint. By the term local disease is here meant that it is not settled on the partS; but merely depends on excitation of them, or
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