Observations on the nature and treatment of cholera, and on the pathology of mucous membranes / By Alex. Turnbull Christie.

  • Christie, Alexander Turnbull.
Date:
1828
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Credit: Observations on the nature and treatment of cholera, and on the pathology of mucous membranes / By Alex. Turnbull Christie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    commenced. Ascrupleof calomel was then given, and was washed down with one dram of aether, thirty drops of laudanum and some warm water. Warm barley-water was given to him occasionally. After thebleeding,his pulse improved a little •, he retained, the medicines and barley- water ; and by four o’clock there was a great improve- ment ; the vomiting and purging having ceased* and the spasms having been entirely removed. He took no more medicine ; and I left him with directions that he should only have some barley-water with a little white wine. I saw him again at seven o’clock, when he told me he had perspired a good deal and now felt perfectly easy. He had a feculent evacuation next morning his mouth became slightly affected by the calomel, and he speedily recovered. Obs.—In this case the bilious vomiting, pain in the l abdomen* thirst, parched tongue, and spasms, clearly shew that there was inflammation of the gastro-enteric mucous membrane. The collapsed features, small pulse, great discharges of serum by vomiting and stool, prove that the action of the secretory vessels of the gastro-enteric mucous membrane was increased. The indications of cure were evidently, first, to repress the vomiting in order to enable the other medicines to re- main on the stomach ; secondly, to diminish the increas-