Volume 1

Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton.

  • Sutton, Thomas, 1767-1835.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cast 1. I attended a patient, with Doctor | Michel of Woolwich, who was at first attacked with acute rheumatism, under which he had laboured for ten days ; but, in the three days previous to my visiting him, he had become very delirious, and without sleep. . When I saw him, he had a strait waistcoat on; of course might be considered to have been very ungo- vernable. He had been bled in the course of the day, and the. blood was buffy ; the bowels had been acted on freely, a sti- mulating composition had been applied to the head, and a blister between the shoulders: notwithstanding which, all the symptoms had become worse. The pulse was very quick*: there were continual * Doctor Saunders observed, that he knew no disease in which the pulse became so rapid, and recovery ensued, as in numerous cases of this affec- tion; which perfectly accords with my observation :