On the efficacy of the secale cornutum in haemorrhage and leucorrhoea, and on its effects in gonorrhoea / by G. Negri.

  • Negri, Gaetano.
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[1833]
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Credit: On the efficacy of the secale cornutum in haemorrhage and leucorrhoea, and on its effects in gonorrhoea / by G. Negri. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tinued for ha\f an hour, when she applied to a surgeon, who put plugs into the anterior nares, but the bleeding continued through the pos- terior the whole of the night, more or less. On the following morning (Saturday) she was bled from the arm to about a pint, and took some opening medicine. The haemorrhage, however, continued at intervals all that day and throughout the night, but not so violently as before. On Sunday morning the haemorrhage, after having ceased for a little while, returned .about the same hour as on the preced ing day, and continued more or less all the day, and in the evening it was very much increased, and went on bleeding at intervals almost all the night. On Monday morning (August 19th), about noon, the bleeding came on very freely; she thinks she lost about half a pint of blood in a quarter of an hour. When we saw her it was about one o’clock p. m., at which time the haemorrhage was very active. She was very pale and weak, her pulse quick and small. Six grains of the secale cornutum were ordered to be given immediately (one o’clock p. m.), and to be re- peated every quarter of an hour. She was directed to sit down in the apothecary’s room, with the view of ascertaining the result. At a quarter past one the hemorrhage was very much abated; she was then complaining of being very faint; a second dose was given, and five minutes after, namely, twenty minutes from the first exhibition of the remedy, the haemorrhage had entirely ceased. Another powder was given at half-past one, and a fourth at two o’clock. She was then sent home, and directed to take one powder only every hour till six o’clock in the evening, and if no haemorrhage re-appeared to take one of them every three hours. August 20th. We visited the patient at her own house, and found her lying down com- fortably. She stated that she had been free from haemorrhage since she took the second dose at the Dispensary, and now feels only very weak. The powders were continued at longer intervals. 22nd. She was well, and had seen only a few drops of blood the same day I visited her, after having pinched her nose, but ceased directly after taking one of the powders. No remedy was ordered. She returned on the ] 9th of September, when, being quite well, was discharged cured. This case was witnessed by our colleagues, Dr. Ryan, Mr. Jenkins, and Mr. Nettlcfold, the surgeon-apothecary of our Institution, who gave the medicine himself to the patient, and watched over the case. Case XI. — Hamoploe. — Jeremiah Sams, set. 20, a cabinet-maker. Four months pre- viously he had a cough, with a slight expec- toration in the morning, which was generally of a greenish colour. Six weeks ago he ob- served the expectoration to be tinged with blood; this continued for a week; then he began to bring up about a teaspoonful of blood every morning, and continued so for the last two weeks. The haemorrhage was neither preceded nor attended by any considerable aggravation ofhis cough, and only occurred in the morning. lie had also some difficulty of breathing when making some exertion. His complexion is very pale. He was admitted on the 3rd of October last, and as there was not present any symptoms indicating the ex- istence of an inflammatory action, requiring more active means, six grains of the sccale cornutum were prescribed, to be taken three times a-day, Oct. 7th. After having taken his powders for two days the haemorrhage diminished, as well as the cough. Has had no giddiness or any other extraordinary symptom from taking his powders. The remedy was repeated, and shortly afterwards the haemorrhage ceased. 17th. Had a slight return of the hemor- rhage for two or three days, but only once in the morning.—Pergat. 24th. The hemorrhage ceased entirely from the 21st. The cough and the difficulty of breathing is a great deal less.—'Pergat. 28th. On the 26th he saw again a very little tinge of blood in his spittle. Cough a great deal better Pergat. Nov. 1st. Has had no more haemorrhage; his cough is now very slight. No remedy. For the two following cases we are particu- larly indebted to our friend, Mr. E. Nettleford, the surgeon apothecary of our Dispensary, who had also the kindness to write down the history of almost all the former cases. Case XII—Hemoptysis—“ Mrs, Clarkson, set. 33, married, a private patient, Had not been in good health for the last five years, in consequence of rupturing a vessel in her chest. Since this accident she had a cough, which, together with the haemorrhage from the chest, and sometimes from the nose, has continued up to the present time (April 4th, 1833,) with but slight intermission; indeed, for the last fortnight she has had hremorrhage from the chest every day. Thinks she might have lost this morning about half a teacupful of blood. Her cough is very troublesome; has great palpitation of the heart, and giddiness. “ April 4th. Six grains of the ergot of rye were ordered to be taken every second hour. “ 5lh. Rested well last night. This morning her pulse is quick, but soft; the cough less, and she expectorates freely. Has had no haemorrhage since taking the above powders, of which she has taken sixteen. The giddiness is less, and she feels much relieved. “6th. No haemorrhage has occurred; her cough is better ; pulse full, quick, and rather sharp; tongue while. She is feverish, with pain in her side, and this is usually followed by the bleeding, which she thinks will soon come on.—Continue the powders every hour. “7th. The pain in the side left her in the