On the use of belladonna in enteric fever / by John Harley.

  • Harley, John, 1833-1921.
Date:
[1872?]
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Credit: On the use of belladonna in enteric fever / by John Harley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    Case 5.—A moderately severe case, haemorrhage on the eleventh, convalescence on the twenty-fourth day. Esther P—, aged 20. Had been ill a week before admission with headache and looseness of the bowels. Treatment.—She took iqxxx Succi belladonnae, quartis horis, from the seventh to the eleventh and from the fourteenth to the twenty-second day. Progress.—There was constipation from the seventh to the eleventh day, when there was haemorrhage. Convalescence began on the eighteenth day of the disease. With an inter- ruption of two and a half days the belladonna was given during sixteen days. 7th day.—iqxxx Succi belladonnas, quartis horis. Abdomen full and hard; several rose spots ; tongue dry and cracked ; restless; delirium at night. T. 103°. P. 120. 8th.—Bowels quiet. T. 102*6°. P. 120. 9th.—Bowels quiet. T. 103°. P. 120. 10th.—Poultice to the abdomen. Bowels not acted since admis- sion ; abdomen tense; tongue dry and brown. T. 101*6°. P. 108. 11th.—Substituted Haustus terebinthince in the evening for the belladonna, and gave Tqxx Tincturae opii as an enema. Bowels quiet all day, but in the evening there was hae- morrhage, estimated at half a pint. T. 102*2°. P. 132. 12th.—Bowels quiet. T. 103°. P. 124. 13tli.—A loose stool, but no trace of blood. T. 99*1°. P. 116. 14th.—Omitted the turpentine and resumed the belladonna. Bowels open once; tongue moist and cleaning. T. 99*4°. P. 112. 15th.—Bowels open once. T. 100°. P. 108. 16th.—No action of the bowels. T. 98°. P. 96. 17th.—No action of the bowels ; tongue natural. T. 98*2°. P. 88. 18th to23rd.—Discontinued the belladonna on the twenty-second day. Comfortable, cheerful, and very hungry; the temperature and pulse retaining their normal character; convalescence was rapid.