Cases of nerve-disorder : recorded with reference to the probable operation of malaria as a cause / by C. Handfield Jones.

  • Jones, C. Handfield (Charles Handfield), 1819-1890
Date:
1856
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Credit: Cases of nerve-disorder : recorded with reference to the probable operation of malaria as a cause / by C. Handfield Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not being able to expel flatus. The abdomen is rather large and distended. Quinse disulphatis gr. iv; acidi nitrici >qij; decocti cin- chonse §j. M. Fiat hanstus ter die snmendns. Jan. 31st. He slept well last night, and feels almost as well as ever he did: he has had no return of the eruption. Feb. 4th. There is still tenderness at the lower part of the abdomen, and some tendency to diarrhoea, with uneasi¬ ness after the food. The chest is improving. ft Ferri et quinse citratis gr. s; liquoris opii sedativi inviij ; aquse pimentse ^j. M. Fiat haustus ter die sumendus. Sumat tannini gr. iv ter die. Soon after this he became quite convalescent, though some degree of abdominal uneasiness still remained when my attendance ceased. Remarks. Here was a case of chronic bronchial and gastric catarrh, associated with neuralgia of the intestines. The latter on several occasions became exacerbated to¬ wards evening (as is common in neuralgia), and hence the diarrhoea and sickness. There must have existed a state of irritation of sensory nerves, combined with paralysis of the vascular; so that muco-watery profluvium took place from the gastric and intestinal surface. The point, however, which I wish to remark is the extension of the morbid ac¬ tion to the outer teguments at a time when he had been more restrained than usual, and the prevention of any re¬ currence of the disorder by the use of nervine tonics. Supposing that I had not recognised the true nature of the eruption on the skin, and had believed it to proceed, as well as the neuralgia, from undigested matters in the primse vise which required to be carried off by purgatives, would it not have made a material difference in the pa¬ tient’s state? The hypersemia and irritation of the cuta¬ neous surface was a faithful representation of the state of the mucous; and the state of the general system, the par¬ oxysmal character of the disorder, and the success of 'K. S