Eighteenth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1855.

  • Suffolk Lunatic Asylum.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Eighteenth annual report of the Suffolk Lunatic Asylum : December, 1855. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    15th.—Very well and comfortable: the ulcers have healed, and his general appearance contrasts strikingly with his looks on admission. November 9th.—Discharged in excellent health and very grateful. E. M.—Admitted March 2nd. 1855.—Suffering from mania. The patient is a well informed man, who has been in this house on a previous occasion, and was discharged cured in 1842. His wife states that he remained perfectly well for fourteen years after leaving the Asylum: she also states that he has lately had some disease in the throat which renders deglutition painful. About a fortnight before his admission, he prepared to start for Australia; he was very ill, but was passed by the emigration board, and proceeded to Southampton, where he became excited, and was forthwith removed in the care of two porters to Woodbridge, where he arrived at midnight, on March 1st. and at six o’clock next morning was visited by a surgeon, who found him in a straight jacket, guarded by the porters and very violent and incoherent. He at once directed his speedy removal to the Asylum. He was brought in hand-cuffed and tied to the seat of a cab, in a state of complete exhaustion and in a most disreputable condition. He was immediately placed in a warm bath, and wine and anodynes administered. March 3rd.—He is somewhat revived this morning, but evidently beyond cure, he has copious purulent expectoration, and is able to swallow only a few drops of liquid at a time. 8th.—He this morning coughed up a very large quantity of pus mixed with blood, evidently from the bursting of an abscess in the lung: he is dying. 9th.—-Died 11 a.m. On examining the chest, the remains of a large abscess were found in the apex of the left lung. The whole of the left lobe of the lungs was found infiltrated with pus. The lungs throughout containing tubercles.