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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    Prescribed.—A repetition of the bleeding to 16 ounces ; and the other remedies as on the day before; a tartarized antimonial plaster to the right side. March 26th, 5th Visit,—Felt great relief by the last bleeding, but complains of extreme weak- ness ; pulse 160, and feeble; bowels costive ; urine scanty ; anasarca of the extremities on the right side; cough frequent and very teazing. Prescribed*—A grain of powdered leaves of digitalis three times a day; a mucilaginous mix- ture with Thebaic tincture to allay the cough; and half a drachm of mercurial ointment, half a drachm of hogs lard, and ten grains of camphor previously well triturated together, to be rubbed on the right hypocondrium and right side twice a day. Under the use of these remedies there was some daily amendment observable, and they were con- tinued with little alteration to the 2d of April; but the strength having increased, and the symptoms de- manding bleeding becoming again urgent, venesec- tion to twelve ounces each time was repeated on the 29th of March, the 30th of March, and 1 st of April. On the Sd of April, she was convalescent; under the use of cream of tartar drink, and tincture of digitalis (prescribed for the remaining anasarca, and quick pulse) and that of taraxacum and Iceland moss, she was soon restored to good health, and is novi going on in the last month of