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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    [77] feelings, that she regards the improvement as almost miraculous, and her cure as complete. I am not however so sanguine ; and consider the disease as still unsubdued, and requiring a regulated temperature and great caution, although I cannot but anticipate the proba¬ bility, that the powers of the constitution will be able to restore, in time, the healthv N %/ state of the diseased membrane, if the occa¬ sional use of the acid can keep the morbid irritability sufficiently under control. Case III.—Lieut. Colonel F-— had been afflicted every winter, for several years past, with a spasmodic cough, which had resisted every means that had been tried for its relief; and, therefore, this season he allowed it to take its course, having recourse to a little pa¬ regoric only occasionally at bed time. As I was lately however in attendance upon his family, his wife persuaded him to allow me to prescribe for him ; and conceiving it to be a case likely to bes benefited by the Prussic Acid, it was given to him in doses of two minims in a fluid ounce of almond mixture, and repeated every two hours. After having taken it for three days, and when the dose was encreased to four minims, his cough