Notes of a case in which chrysophanic acid was administered internally by accident / by John Glaister.

  • Glaister, John, 1856-1932.
Date:
[1881?]
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Credit: Notes of a case in which chrysophanic acid was administered internally by accident / by John Glaister. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Reprinted from The Glasgoiu Medical Journal for October, 1881.] NOTES OF A CASE IN WHICH CHRYSOPHANIC ACID WAS ADMINISTERED INTERNALLY BY ACCIDENT. By JOHN GLAISTER, M.B., F.F.P.S.G., &c., Lecturer on Medical Jurisprudence in the Glasgow Royal Infirmary School of Medicine. I AM tempted to place the following notes before the readers of the Journal by reason of the fact that very little is known as to the action of chrysophanic acid administered internally, except through the observations of Dr. Ashburton Thompson; but chiefly because of the severe effects which followed— effects which have not been met with in those cases in which it has been used as an internal medicament. A narrative of the case is as follows:— During the autumn of 1879 I was consulted by Mademois- elle C , ?etat 36, about a biliary disorder, with accompany- ing dyspepsia, for which I prescribed a powder containing— R. Euonymin, gr. iij. Pul. Jalap. Co., gr. xl. M. This prescription was dispensed in a chemist's shop in the neighbourhood, and the powder was taken by the patient that evening at bedtime. When visiting on the folloMdng morning I was told that the powder had produced very severe effects ■ that about half-an-hour after it had been swallowed, patient began to experience considerable pain in the stomach with general abdominal uneasiness ; that this was quickly followed by severe and prolonged vomiting, accompanied by puro-ing- and that the vomiting, purging, and abdominal pain^'had continued more or less the whole night. Latterly, however the pain was greatest over the region of the bladder, and she had_ trequent calls to micturition, which acts were accom- panied by considerable pain and tenesmus, the urine being