On the use of oxygen and strychnine in pneumonia / by T. Lauder Brunton and Marmaduke Prickett.

  • Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.
Date:
1892
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Credit: On the use of oxygen and strychnine in pneumonia / by T. Lauder Brunton and Marmaduke Prickett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    bottles, in which it is condensed. The utility of oxygen in this form has recently been shown by Colonel Elsdale, who, in an article in the Fortnightly Review about a year ago, described his successful employment of it in a case of poisoning by coal gas. We accordingly ’ procured some oxygen with as little delay as possible from Brin’s Oxygen Works, Horseferry Road, Westminster, the man in charge of the works kindly supplying it to us, although, being Sunday, both the works and the office in 34, Victoria Street, S.W., were shut. The Oxygen Company* supplies a mouthpiece and in- haling bag somewhat resembling that usually employed for the inhalation of nitrous oxide and ether, but we used the simpler though more wasteful plan of allowing the oxygen to stream into the mouth through a plain piece of glass tubing attached by an india-rubber tube to the oxygen bottle. In about fifteen or twenty minutes the patient’s colour became less livid, though he was still completely uncon- scious. When he was next seen by one of us about two hours afterwards an extraordinary transformation had taken place. He was perfectly conscious, his colour quite healthy, and he expressed himself as feeling comfortable and well. During our absence he had awakened, and said to a rela- tive : “ What a fine sleep I have had. I feel quite well.” The inhalation of oxygen was discontinued, but nevertheless during the afternoon and evening, and early part of the night, he seemed to be progressing favourably. About three o’clock in the morning his respiration again became embarrassed, and his circulation feebler, and despite the continued inhalation of oxygen we found him about nine * The telegraphic address of the Company is “Brins 0.x\'gen. L ondon.”