Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / by James Hamilton.

Date:
1823
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Credit: Observations on the utility and administration of purgative medicines in several diseases / by James Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    For these he took, between the 10th and 17th, tincture of steel, and opening powders, containing magnesia, rhu- barb, and a little ginger. On the 18th, the bowels beino- more obstinate, he took six grains of calomel, with only a very slight effect. On the 19th, he was seized, early i„ the morning, with violent and almost incessant spasms • the diaphragm seemed to be the part first affected, as he lelt a constriction there, instantly however followed by a s ight extension of the spine, like an approach to tetanus, and startings of the aims and legs. The pulse was natu- ral, the tongue furred, and there was a little, but only a very little, confusion in the head. For these symptoms e took, in divided doses, the following mixture within R. Camphor® grana decern. Magnesias albas scrupulum unum, oyrupi simplicis drachmas duas, I mcturas opii guttas seypo-intn “ This Pr°duced as little effect, as I have i, sight of food excited liuclu inclination to “g the “iIdest drink, and the mere nausea. The spasms continued to