A treatise on clinical medicine, being a compendious and systematic introduction to practice, as contained in the memoranda of I. R. Bischoff / From the German, by Joseph Cope.

  • Bischoff, Ignaz Rudolph, Edler von Altenstern, 1784-1850
Date:
1827
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    MOamLLl CUM AFFECTIOXE FAUCIUM ET LARYNGIS. John Wanick, a student, thirteen years old, of a robust habit, was on the 2^d of February (the sixth day of his illness), brought into the hospital, his face and body swollen with the eruption of measles, a slight ophthalmy and catarrh, with coryza, stoppage in the nose, and pain in swallow- ing ; the inner fauces were slightly inflamed, he had a dry cough, with constant irritation, the urine pale red, the pulse quick, full, and soft. Ordered, Decoct. A 1th. cum Pot. nit, et Syr. Alth. On the 23d, he had not slept during the night, the cough was very troublesome, he had hoarse- ness and tension in the throat, to which emollient cataplasms were applied, and his other remedies continued. On the 24th, his nose began to dis- charge, the irritation of the mucous membranes still continued, and he complained of a tickling in the larynx. The nitre was omitted, two leeches were applied to the larynx, and powders with one- third of a grain of calomel given. He became better, the eruption was for the most part scaling off, and he perspired. Decoct. Alth. mannat. was given for a costiveness of some days, the cough and tickling disappeared, and he was free from complaint; he was discharged cured on the 8th of March. The measles had a very mild course in a boy, six years old, who came on the 1st of April into the clinical hospital, quite covered with eruption; the fever was pretty strong, the heat of the skin much increased, and he had a dry hard cough. Decoct. Alth, cum Pot. nit. et Roob Sambuci was ordered. With the use of this remedy the fever abated, the eruption disappeared, a desqua- N 3