Medical report of the Whitworth Hospital, containing an account of dysentery, as it appeared in the latter end of 1818 / by J. Cheyne.

Date:
1821
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Credit: Medical report of the Whitworth Hospital, containing an account of dysentery, as it appeared in the latter end of 1818 / by J. Cheyne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pain—not even a sense of weight or uneasiness had been referred to that organ by the patients (but this will be more particularly noticed when I come to state the appearances on dissection) ; but the advan- tages accruing from this plan were not so extensively beneficial as I had anticipated, though in several instances I had reason to attribute the patient’s re- covery to the action of this medicine. Astringents and absorbents in conjunction with aromatics and cordials were indicated in severe cases, with starch glysters and opium. All the patients who had laboured under this disease, previous to their being discharged from Hospital, were provided with two flannel waistcoats, and excused night duties till their strength was per- fectly restored. No. 6. The appearances on dissection ? The diseased appearances discovered on inspec- tion of the bodies was very much alike in all. The chief seat of disease was in the colon, the coats of which were found greatly thickened, with strong marks of inflammation—portions of the gut, in some cases, approached a scirrhous state ; the passage at this part being much narrowed. Part of the ascending colon generally adhered to the peritoneum, and there the disease had made greatest progress—it felt thickened, and was dark coloured. The rectum was also in general thickened, and its inner coat much destroyed b) ulceration. The