Observations on some of the remedial properties of Simaba cedron, and on its employment in intermittent fever / by S.S. Purple.

  • Purple, Samuel S. (Samuel Smith), 1822-1900.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Observations on some of the remedial properties of Simaba cedron, and on its employment in intermittent fever / by S.S. Purple. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the autumn of 1853, cases of intermittent fever were not of unfrequent occurrence in this city, especially in the vicinity of Canal and Hudson streets, and, in fact, in the neighborhood of most of the main sewers in different sec- tions of the city. It is not our intention to stop here and offer an explanation of the causes which are, and must be, from necessity, continually at work in producing intermittent fever in this city. This would require a searching investiga- tion into our whole system of drainage and supply, and would in no way answer the objects for which this paper is writ- ten. As before stated, cases of fever were not of unfrequent occurrence, and during the months of September, October, and November, nine cases were treated with the article under consideration. Of this number, six were recent, and three were of long standing, having oacoooofti'lly resisted quinine, jT Fowler's solution, and all the usual means resorted to in the treatment of the disease. Of the six recent cases, five yielded readily and permanently to the remedy, in doses and at periods that will be particularized in the following cases ; while the remaining one resisted, successively, emetics, ce- dron, quinine, Fowler's solution, etc., and finally yielded permanently to bebeerine and nux vomica combined. Of the three cases of long standing, and previously treated by dif- ferent remedies, unsuccessfully, two yielded permanently to cedron, and one yielded temporarily, returning under the use of the remedy, but finally yielded permanently to cedron, after the administration of an emetic, followed by ten grains of pil. hydra, in divided doses. Case 1.—Mrs. E., aged 38 years, of nervous sanguine tem- perament, rather feeble health, the mother of five children, resided in Newark, N. J., during the summer of 1852, and there contracted intermittent fever, from which she slowly recovered under the use of quinine, having experienced three relapses in the course of the season. In the month of Sep- tember, 1853, having resided in this city nearly a year, she was again attacked with the quotidian form of the disease, and consulted me in the intermission between the third and