Report of a case of acute glanders, followed by recovery : with remarks / by F.W. Mackenzie.

  • Mackenzie, F. W.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Report of a case of acute glanders, followed by recovery : with remarks / by F.W. Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    permanently useful, than those which have been made by the zeal and persevering industry of our forefathers. I cannot doubt of the utility of this particular mode of treatment, in this and other diseases in which I have tried it; and I have less hesitation in recommending it to professional notice, as I do not lay any claim to the merit of intro¬ ducing it. I would, however, observe, that there is much in the his¬ tory of glanders which assimilates it to the more malignant forms of scarlet fever. Both, for instance, arise from a specific contagion; in both there is a similarity in the parts which, are more especially im¬ plicated, viz., the throat, the respiratory mucous membrane, and the salivary glands ; and in each there is a tendency to ulceration, slough¬ ing, and destruction of the tissue of these parts. These circumstances furnish grounds for believing, a priori, that the medicine which would be best adapted for one disease, would be most curative of the other; and this conclusion, which is suggested by careful reflection, is con¬ firmed by practical observation, .so far at least as the issue of the pre¬ sent case is concerned. It is unnecessary to dwell upon the other items of treatment; the use of opium was clearly indicated upon general grounds. The em¬ ployment of gargles of the chlorides of lime and soda in ulcerative affections of the mouth and throat, has been long sanctioned by general ' experience ; and there could be no doubt as to the necessity of adminis¬ tering wine freely, with such support as the patient was able to take. Chester Place, Hyde Park Gardens, August 1851.