Further observations on the internal use of the hydro-cyanic (prussic) acid : in pulmonary complaints; chronic catarrhs; spasmodic coughs; asthma; hooping-cough; and some other diseases. With full directions for the preparation and administration of that medicine / by A.B. Granville.

  • Granville, A. B. (Augustus Bozzi), 1783-1872.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Further observations on the internal use of the hydro-cyanic (prussic) acid : in pulmonary complaints; chronic catarrhs; spasmodic coughs; asthma; hooping-cough; and some other diseases. With full directions for the preparation and administration of that medicine / by A.B. Granville. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ ™ ] stances, I judged the case to be a proper one for the use of the Prussic Acid, and there¬ fore resolved to try it the first occasion that offered. On the 26th of January I visited Miss G—> and found her labouring under one of her attacks. She attributed it to cold, but could form no idea, to use her own language, of the way in which she had caught it, as she had not only not been out of doors, but had for many days refrained from going through the house further than was necessary to pass from her own room to the dining room, which was well warmed before mid-day, the time at which she then left her bed room. The cough was unusually hard, much resembling that of croup, and very frequent; the sensa¬ tion of suffocation and, as she expressed it, of something sticking in the windpipe, was extremely distressing; the skin was not hot nor dry ; but the pulse was small, quick, and intermitting -T and the fauces, on looking into the mouth, were inflamed, and streaked with red lures, as if the larger vessels had been strongly injected: yet, neither the amygdala?, nor the uvula were swelled. On inquiry I found she had that morning opened