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

Date:: 1790

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.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$[ 22 ] without moiflure, brown and hard. A fin- gultus, and fubfultus tendinum came on ^ he had a wildnefs in his looks fucceeded by a delirium. On the eighth from the accident, I direded him to take a bolus containing ten grains of mufk with ten grains of fait of hartfhorn, made up with conferve of rofes, every three hours. He flept better, the following night, than he had ever done fince his misfortune, though he had no opiate; and, the next * morning, he was in a breathing fweat. His fymptoms gradually abated, but he continued the ufe of the bolus, till he had takeii two ounces and a half of mufk, and as much fait of hartfhorn. The mortification flopped, and the dead parts feparating from the living, came away, in •large {loughs; but, there was fuch a con- fiderable lofs of fubftance, that he was not able to leave the infirmary till the eleventh of December, upwards of nine months from the accident, when he was difeharged cured, with a very ufeful leg. CASE$