Considerations on the medicinal use and on the production of factitious airs / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. : part II ; by James Watt, engineer .... ; to which are added communications from Doctors Carmichael, Darwin, Ewart, ... and others.

  • Beddoes, Thomas, 1760-1808.
Date:
1795
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Credit: Considerations on the medicinal use and on the production of factitious airs / by Thomas Beddoes, M.D. : part II ; by James Watt, engineer .... ; to which are added communications from Doctors Carmichael, Darwin, Ewart, ... and others. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f ( 65 ) and I encouraged no hopes in my patient, and in the morning he was to take the cathartic before-mentioned, to which was added half a grain of tartarized antimony. The next day I found' the pulfe oi rriy patient lefs oppreffed confiderably. I aflced him to attempt an in- fpiration but he could riot bear it. The want of fleep was now eafily accounted for. The lungs being In part a voluntary organ, as diftentlon of the vcficles was acute agony, the mind was kept conftaritly alert in pre- venting aUoo free'relpiration, hence perhaps the rea- fon why the breathing was alfo quick and laborious. He had no return of delirium. I repeated'the purges on the two following days. The pulfe became fofter; the tongue looked lefs white ; the thirft was abated; the breathing relieved ; h’ie' fweated profufely ; and began now to covet fome food. I now admitted the ftimulus of light ; I raifed his hopes ; and pfogreffively adding different ftimuli, I came to bark ; and in lefs than three weeks he was about on his bufinefs and as well as ever. Nearly about the fame time I was called in to attend Mrs. Eaton, at Shepherd’s Market. Her diforder feemed lefs confined to the pleura, and extended more over the mucous membrane of the lungs. Her pulfe was 112, tenfe, full, and Intermittent ; her refpiration extremely laborious; her cough veiy painful ; and her expeftoration great. The blood taken from the arm exhibited a cupped appearannee, and hard coagulum, and.the buffed coat, which is peihaps a fecretion from the arteries. She was attended by Dr. Reynolds, who wrote to me as follows: K SIR,