Observations on the history and treatment of cholera asphyxia, as it has appeared at Haddington, showing that is is not necessarily infectious : and including an account of the use of galvanism in the stage of collapse : with an appendix of cases / by Robert Lorimer and John Burton.

  • Lorimer, Robert, -1867.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Observations on the history and treatment of cholera asphyxia, as it has appeared at Haddington, showing that is is not necessarily infectious : and including an account of the use of galvanism in the stage of collapse : with an appendix of cases / by Robert Lorimer and John Burton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Apply sinapism to the abdomen. 11 p. M. No pulse to be felt; complains of much pain at stomach.—Ht. brandy § i. eth. sulph. 3 i. tinct. opii gttae. lx. M. Midnight. Heat of sur- face much improved ; pulse 100, veiy weak ; galvanism applied without any manifest change. 27th January 1 a. m. Re- fuses to allow the galvanic wires to he applied any more. Pulse scarcely perceptible; and heat of surface diminished. Stimulants, with calomel and blisters, were used without effect; and she died at 2 p. M. having had several watery evacuations, tinged with blood, after the mustard enemata, which were fre- quently repeated. CASE XXII. January 27.—John Mather, set. 44 ; of a very powerful frame, was seized this morning with diarrhoea; did not prevent him getting up to work as a blacksmith, until 8 a. m., when cramps and vomiting supeiwened. Was visited at 10 a. m., and had tinct. opii, seth. sulph. aa. gttse xl.; 01. meuthse gttse. xv.; was tlien brought to the hospital; collapse considerable ; has very severe cramps in the extremities, affecting the trunk, and ex- tending to the scrobiculus cordis; pulse perceptible, but very unequal; was immediately bled to g xi. Blood abstracted in a good stream at first, but fell off towards the conclusion ; of a very dark colour; pulse seemed to improve during the ope- ration, now (i to 11 A.M.) 104, feeble. Ordered musfcird emetic, to be followed by large enemata of liot water and mus- tard. Frictions with ol. terebinth, to relieve the cramps. Noon. Upon connecting the galvanic trough (the negative wire to the wrist, and the positive round the trunk, meeting at the scrobiculus cordis), the pulse, which was barely perceptible, immediately became much more distinct, and after 10 minutes, irritability of the stomacli increased, producing vomiting, le severity of tlie cramps seemed also to bo much increased, oiisideiable imiscular action being excited when the galvanic