Notes on diseases in Turkey ; and Memoir on the remittent fever of the Levant.

  • United Kingdom. Army and Ordnance Medical Department.
Date:
1854
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Credit: Notes on diseases in Turkey ; and Memoir on the remittent fever of the Levant. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    him forty hours after he had been taken ill, when alarming nervous symptoms had already set in. Fourteen hours later various parts of the body were covered with blackish spots, varying in size, some of them flat,^ and others a little raised above the surface. I Could not help thinking that, had the man lived on more substantial food, he might have escaped with an ague or a milder form of fever. As soon as such nervous symptoms have become apparent, those of decomposition of the blood are not long absent, sometimes not more than eight or ten hoiu-s, as shown by the eruption of petechias of a dark colour, or large black spots as in the above case. These eruptions are accompanied by delirium, tympanitic abdomen, rapid sinking, gangrene; sometimes bleeding from the nose, and diarrhoea. From these symptoms, and the locality where it occurs with gi'eatest severity, it has been called—continued, petechial, putrid, gangrenous, or Dobruzia, fever. Though I had various remedies recommended, my confidence rests alone in arnica montana; but to have its foil effect the flowers must be given in a decocto-infosum, with a little sesquicarb. of am- monia or sulphuric ether, for example, M. Florum arnicce, 5 j, coque cum sirffl quant aquas per f hortE; cum decocto adhuc calente infunde, floricm arnica 5 j ; stet in infusione per ^ horce in vase clauso. ColaturcB, ^ vj, adde spir.aeth. sulph.3]. Capiat 5 ss. omni hora. The extract of arnica is not of the slightest use; As soon as the nervous symptoms make their appearance, arnica ought to be given in some such form and persevered in^ and the quina continued, though at far greater intervals, and in much smaller doses. The potations ought to contain small quantities of dilute sulph. or phosphoric acid, or elixir, acid. Halleri. If there is great diarrhoea, the radix arnicre would be advantageously added to the infusion—gangrenes- cent places will often improve upon slight application of c 2 i