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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    with frequent white watery purging. All the other functions were natural. He took a doze of physic and some laudanum, which soon re- stored the healthy action of his bowels ; and in the evening he was so well that he intend- ed to return to his duty next morning. Du- ring the night, however, or rather early in the morning, he took a large draught of cold wa- ter and some butter-milk, which occasioned a renewal of the purging. When I saw him at 6 o’clock, a. m. he had been purged frequently, and had vomited two or three times: his eva- cuations being watery,with a few white flakes. His features were considerably collapsed; his pulse at the wrist extremely small. He had already taken fifty minims of laudanum. I immediately opened a vein in his arm, from which very dark-coloured blood flowed slug- gishly in a small stream, or in drops. The bleeding was continued until I procured 30 ounces, when the blood became lighter coloured, his features brightened up, and he expressed himself much relieved. He coughed two or three times, and appeared to