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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    On the 12thyafter a miserably anxious niglit, from pain, rigors, and cough; vomiting, attended with a sense of suffocation, supervened, and he ejected, both by the mouth and anus, more than three pints of purulent matter, of most offensive foetor. On the succeeding day, on which I met Dr. Cheyne in consultation, though the patient was much relieved from pain and other threatening symptoms, seemingly by the discharge of the vomica, yet the purulent expectoration and foetor arising from it, the cadaverous aspect of the pa- tient, and the hectic fever which supervened, left but little room for the indulgence of hope. It was now determined to trust to the digi- talis, expectorants, and aperients in use, and to the cooling regimen. Little alteration, to justify either more hope or despair, took place under the use of these remedies during the succeeding fortnight. The hectic fever, rigors, and night-sweats increasing, when the contents of the vomica accumulated, and de- clining with their evacuation. It may be observed here, that from the time of the first eruption of the vomica, nausea ceased, and the patient felt keen appetite, which was cautiously indulged with cooling diet and cracked milk ; but in one instance, when the limits prescrib- ed in this way were transgressed, the patient suffer- ed much aggravation of his general indisposition. Towards the close of the month of March some