Brief notes on the outbreak of plague in the Jammu province, Kashmir State, during 1901 / by B. R. Sawhney.

  • Sawhney, B. R.
Date:
1901
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Credit: Brief notes on the outbreak of plague in the Jammu province, Kashmir State, during 1901 / by B. R. Sawhney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Case 1, In two cases with high fever and headache; followed by unconsciousness, consciousness was restored after an unin- terrupted application of cold water to the head for several hours. Constipation was common and for its relief Empsom Salt was chiefly used. Appetite was observed to be generally good and the patients unless delerious readily took their food which generally consisted of milk, soup, rice and other easily digestible articles of diet. Bubos were always opened when ripe and in seve- ral cases the use of the lancet was followed by a distinct fall in the pyrexia and a general relief of symptoms. Death in most cases took place from cardiac failure and in some from coma. Curative Human Serumr At the suggestion of Lieutenant-Colonel Joshua Duke, i.m.s., then Superintending Surgeon, Kashmir Hospitals, acting on the hypothesis of antitoxins in the serumr we bled two individuals convalescent from Plague, took the scrum of their blood, and inoculated it wTith the most suitable antiseptic precautions in five Plague patients after the appearance of bubos, in them. The particulars of these cases with results are given below as w^ell as the directions followed in the prepara- tion and use of serum. No decisive conclusions can be drawn from this limited trial, but the results seem to be somewhat hopeful, and encouraging. Eor a more extended trial the opportunities have unfortunately not yet offered themselves. Particulars• of 5 cases in which Duke’s Ilague Curative Strum teas tried at Jagatpur, JUajra, Jammu Province, Kashmir State. Ilusami, daughter of JPhuman, aged 9 years, taken ill with fever, on ISth April 1901, at 12 noon. 19th April.—Temperature 102, Rt. Cervical Bubo found, no cough. 6 p.m., 3 e.c. of Serum inoculated under the skin of arm. 20tii April,—Temperature rose to 103 E, glandular swelling (bubo) lessened. G p.m., 3 more c.c. of Serum inoculated as before.