Contributions to the study of insanity and its treatment, &c., &c.

  • Clouston, T. S. (Thomas Smith), 1840-1915.
Date:
1863-[1870]
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Credit: Contributions to the study of insanity and its treatment, &c., &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    grain doses. After that it rose, but not up to its usual standard without medicine. 10. None of the patients suffered in their general health except five. All the others were benefited in some way, ex- cept one, 11. The ill effects produced by the medicine in those five cases were torpor of mind and body, drowsiness, increase of temperature, loss of weight, loss of appetite, and in three of them slight double pneumonia. 12. The cases most benefited by the drug were very various as to the causes, number, and character of the fits, age, and in every other respect. On the whole the cases who took most fits benefited most. 13. The cases in whom the medicine had ill effects had all taken fits from childhood, were all very demented in mind, and took more than one fit per week, but seemed to have nothing else in common. 14. The diminution of the fits and all the other good effects of the medicine reached their maximum in adults at thirty grain doses three times a day, while ill effects were manifested when thirty-five grain doses three times a day were reached. 15. There seemed to be no seriously ill effects produced in twenty of the cases by fifty grain doses of the medicine thrice a day, continued for ten weeks. 16. When the medicine was entirely discontinued in all the cases the average number of fits increased in 5 of the cases benefited, to or beyond their original number in four weeks; in 13 cases they remained considerably less. The total average during that time was a little more than one half the number of fits taken before the medicine was given, and the greatest number of fits occurred in the second week after the medicine was discontinued.