An enquiry into the medical properties of iodine, more particularly in dropsy : also an account of the utility of local-bloodletting, in hydrothorax and bronchitis / partly translated from the Latin of T.L.C. Schroeder van der Kolk by C.J.B. Aldis.

  • Aldis C. J. B. (Charles James Berridge), 1808-1872.
Date:
1832
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Credit: An enquiry into the medical properties of iodine, more particularly in dropsy : also an account of the utility of local-bloodletting, in hydrothorax and bronchitis / partly translated from the Latin of T.L.C. Schroeder van der Kolk by C.J.B. Aldis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    dyspnœa, with palpitation of the heart, and con- gestion towards the head, were so violent, that there appeared to be imminent danger of suffo- cation ; lier speech was impaired from pulmonary anxiety, lips somewhat black, sclerotic coat of the eye turgid with darkish vessels, the feet were œdematous, hands blue ; she had already been afflicted with an asthmatic attack for years ; the urine was scanty and red ; after the application of leeches, she experienced great relief, and the urine on the foliowing night was far more abundant, which I attempted to promote by cooling diuretic remedies ; the same symptoms returned again, but less urgently ; and after the application of hirud. iii. or iv., by which a great quantity of blood was obtained, and the use of the diuretics being conti- nued, she was so restored, that ail the blue colour vanished, the respiration was free, no cough, no œdema, she recovered her strength, and was able to leave the Hospital. There is also another case in exemplification of the success of similar treatment in bronchitis, which the limits of this Treatise will not allow me to produce. THE END. aiLBRRT & RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, St. John’s Square, London.