Cases and observations; by the Medical Society of New-Haven County, in the state of Connecticut, instituted in the year 1784.

  • Medical Society of New-Haven County.
Date:
1788
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Credit: Cases and observations; by the Medical Society of New-Haven County, in the state of Connecticut, instituted in the year 1784. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    of his head, and that the room was dark, his fe- ver gone, and pulfe rather fmall and interrupted j but as the day was ftormy, and the room he was then in was a dark room, I did not apprehend a failure of vifion. The 3d his complaints the fame, and evident that vifion was affected, attended with a degree of ftupor. I applyed ' a large epi- fpaftic to the nape of his neck. And on the 4th repeated the purge with the calomel, which not operating kindly an enema was given. On the 5th I found him totally blind, and fo infenfible as to afford no fatisfaftory anfwcr to any of my quef- tions, his pulfe feeble and oppreffed, accompa- nied with a fubfultus tendinum. I gave him four portions of the fadlit. cinnabar, a fcruple in each dofe, once in fix hours. On the 6th I fownd his fight a little reftored, and more fenfible, tho’ ftill incoherent in his anfwers and obfervations. I was favoured with Dr. Eneas Munfon in council this evening; we agreed to prefcribe an infufion of fhe valerian, and to repeat the next morning, the mercurial purge ; it did not operate. On the 7th we met in council, ordered the repetition of ene- mas, the purge not having operated ; On thi? day the hiccups came on gradually at firft, and with a conftant erudlation of a frothy mucus from the lungs and ftomach. An anodyne was given this evening. On the 8th I found him much diftreffed with an incrcafe of the hiccups, and a continuation of all the other fymptoms ; In the evening I preferibed two anodynes, one to be given h. f. alter in four hours if the hiccups were violent. On the 9th his fymptoms much the fame, with the addition of a ftrangury and re- tention of urine, through the whole of the nic^ht and day ; I preferibed an emollient fotus to the pubis, and a decodion of the cooling feeds and roots.