Bradycrote treatment of yellow fever, by veratrum viride and gelseminum sempervirens.

  • White, Octavius A. (Octavius Augustus), 1826-1903.
Date:
[1858?]
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Credit: Bradycrote treatment of yellow fever, by veratrum viride and gelseminum sempervirens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ' 3 BRADYCROTE TREATMENT OF YELLOW FEYER, BY YERATRUM YIRIDE AND GELSEMINUM SEMPERVIRENS. Charleston, Oct. 22nd, 1858. Mr. Editor,—In accordance with an intention publicly announced by us at an early period of the season, when incomplete trial had not yet furnished us with the details contained in this paper, we send you for publication a suc- cinct analysis of the cases of yellow fever which have been treated by us in this epidemic with veratrum viride and gelseminum sempervirens. The fatality of the disease, in general, and especially during this season in Charleston, was, of course, the cause of our distrust in received modes of practice, and we hoped to find among untried remedies some one upon which a complete reliance could be placed. Dr. Ford proposed as a plan of treatment in the first place, as speedily as was possible and prudent, to reduce the frequency and volume of the pulse, at the febrile onset, to a range ten beats or more below that peculiar to each individual treated; and in the second place, to maintain it fifteen or twenty beats below the same standard, according to the intensity of the access and the subsequent symptoms. In this way he hoped to arrest the fever after a few hours, and to prevent its return in any notable manner; from the catalogue of drugs which lower the heart's action, selecting the veratrum viride on ac- count of its remarkable certainty, promptness, and freedom /Z# £3