Cases and remarks in surgery : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing the method of curing the bronchocele in Coventry / by B. Wilmer.

  • Wilmer, Bradford.
Date:
1779
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Credit: Cases and remarks in surgery : to which is subjoined, an appendix, containing the method of curing the bronchocele in Coventry / by B. Wilmer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    At this time I was in the country, and could not fee him till three o'clock in the afternoon. In the fpace of five hours, in which I was abfent, he had eight convul- live fits, and the fpafms of the mufcles were fo violent, that feveral men could not, without difficulty, confine him in bed. His pulfe was very low, his coun¬ tenance pale ; the fore-arm was again fwollen, and hot; and, upon the \^hoie, it was evident that an uncommon irrita¬ tion of the thumb was the caufe of thefe dangerous fymptoms. I REMOVED the dreffings from the wound, and applied to it a pledget of lint, imbued with the balfamum Peruvianum, and gave him internally thirty drops of the fame balfam upon a lump of fugar, which was likewife ordered to be repeated every hour. Six leeches were directed to be ap¬ plied to the infide of the arm, near the wrift. In the evening he was rather bet¬ ter; had but one violent paroxyfm fince I faw him laft; but, as he was then hot, I took from the other arm twelve ounces of