Pathological observations : and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustrated by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker.

  • Stoker, William.
Date:
1823
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Credit: Pathological observations : and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustrated by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    xu mata, were then employed, but all with little apparent advantage, and I left my patient at midnight, though with an injunction to her at- tendants to persevere in the means in use, and as a dernier resort directed a blister to the riijht hypochondrium, yet with little ground for hope that she could survive the night. Second visit.—November 20.—Eight o'clock, A. M. I learned that at two o'clock, the pulse having previously become strong and quick, blood began to flow freely from the tem- poral artery that had been opened in the even- ing, and soon afterwards the spasms ceased, the powers of speech and of motion were re- stored, the enemata were returned, bringing fseces along with them ; and when about twelve ounces of blood had been discharged from the temple, the opening was secured by bandage, the patient drank freely of whey and fell asleep, continuing to sleep tranquilly to the time of my visit. On wakening her none of the symptoms (such as were detailed in the last visit) remained; but there was a high degree of pyrexia, which con- tinued, notwithstanding venesection, and the use