Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White.

Date:
1790
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Credit: Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not attended with thofe fymptoms, but have, frequently, been difappointed in its effects. I will now lay, before the reader, fome of the cafes which occurred during the firft four years of my giving this me- dicine. CASE I. On the thirteenth of September 1778. i performed the operation of lithotomy upon Mr. Patrick, a gentleman aged fixty-two, and extracted a ftone weighing between three and four ounces. The in- flammatory fymptoms ran very high for two or three of the firft days, attended with great pain and tenfion of the abdo- men. The antiphlogiftic plan was pur- fued, together with anodyne fomentations and embrocations to the parts affefted; but the tenfion and pain of the abdomen not giving way, the belly, on the fourt day after the operation, was rubbed wit mercurial ointment, and it was repeate twice a day. His pulfc was. quick, and