Malarious fever / By E. Hare, Esq., Inspector General of Hospitals, Bengal.

  • Hare, E. (Edward), 1812-1897.
Date:
1864
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    21 MALARIOUS m\m. Lincl and Hunter. Tlicir practice was new to me, and I read them with ea,<>'erncss I had seen enouo-h of the standard practice to be dissatisfied with it, especially in some recent cases I had treated of the Terai Fever. They all died no remission took place, there were head symptoms, and I durst not give Quinine. In fact it was so utterly forbidden by all authorities, that it never occurred to me to give it. I tried to salivate, but the Fever was so active that my patients were dead before the Mercury had time to affect them. It then struck me as remarkable that, since the discovery ot Qumme, no one had tried it in the same way, as Lind and Munter had used Bark, from the dread of its increasing con- gestion and inflammation. And a case quite hopeless under the common treatment, soon offered itself to me, and I deter- mined to try Quinine. I was sitting in my room one morning, when my servant came m haste to tell me that some Natives had brouo-ht a l^uropean very sick from the Terai, and I found a young lad af about 20, lying nearly insensible on a Native bed. ihe Natives said that he was travelling on a pony in the Terai, had fallen off insensible in theii' village, and fearincr he should die there, and cause suspicion, they had brought him to the nearest Doctor. ° I immediately mLxed a scruple of Quinine in some wine, and by giving him a tea-spoonful at a time, made him swallow it. I repeated it every four hours three times that day, early in the morning he was sensible, and I gave him another dose, and some arrowroot and milk. He took the same doses through- 'out this day with some soup, and the next day, to my delight, he was out of danger, and to my surprise, he had taken 2^ drams of Quinine in 48 hours, and without much inconve- nience. The poor lad was a deserter from the Eegiment at Gazee- pore, and he had thus wandered in the deadly Terai, till he nearly perished. He returned to his Regiment quite well. I soon had plenty of other cases to try my new treat- ment on, and among the rest, the Resident of Nepaul, who foohshly passed through the Terai in the unhealthy season; also a number of Indigo Planters in the district, whom I Avas called to attend for bad Fevers. Having thus accumulated sufficient evidence, in Novem- ber 1847 I published at Delhi a Pamphlet styled—Hints,