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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    [ *6 ] dent, her arm was completely mortified, almoft as high as the (boulder, and the fwelling and inflammation had extended even dill further, and feemed to be pro- greffive. The mortification and other bad fymptoms had made fuch a progrefs, that there was little expettation (lie could live niany hours. Of all mortifications, indeed, none are, perhaps, fo often fatal, or advance with fuch rapidity, as thofe occafioned by compound fradures of the fore-arm. Under fuch prefling circumftances, no time was to be loft. She took, immediately, twenty drops of the tineft. theb. and, foon afterwards, a bolus containing fix grains of mu(k and three grains of fait of hartfhorn. The bolus was repeated every three hours. Orders were alfo given for the opiate to be repeated, as often as it was neceflary to procure eafe and deep ; but (he had no occafion for it; the mulk and fait of hart (horn anfwering every purpofe, oi that fort. The next morning, the mortification feemed to have made no further progre s, (lie was perfectly compofed ; her pulfe on y one hundred * and the bolus appeared to ,g,e,d .Uh he, fo well, fo* «»