An account of the last illness, decease, and post mortem appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte : to which is added a letter from Dr. Arnott to Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe, giving a succinct statement of Napoleon Bonaparte's disease and demise.

  • Arnott, Archibald, 1771-1855.
Date:
1822
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Credit: An account of the last illness, decease, and post mortem appearances of Napoleon Bonaparte : to which is added a letter from Dr. Arnott to Lieutenant-General Sir Hudson Lowe, giving a succinct statement of Napoleon Bonaparte's disease and demise. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    continued until morning, when a profuse per- spiration came on, the febrile symptoms abated, and by noon there was a good clear remission. The p'ulse was 80, and heat not more than na- tural. The bowels were still constipated, yet we could not prevail on him to take mild ca- thartics, as occasion required, although we car- ried conviction to his mind of the expediency of what we recommended. Enemata were the only remedies he would make use of, and the evacuations from them were very scanty. On the morning of the 5th of April, when I called at Long wood. Professor Antomarchi in- formed me that the Emperor had been very ill during the night. His report to me was, that he had been very feverish, had vomited four times, that what came off the stomach was phlegm, and that he had continual nausea: about two o'clock in the morning, however, the febrile symptoms began to decline, and a clammy per- spiration to come on, and there was tension of the abdomen, accompanied with pain, which was in- creased on pressure However, by the time * Molto febbre, ha vomitato quattro volte della pituita, con- tinue eccitaniento al vomito o nausea: alle ore 2 circa dopo la mezza notte ha incomminciato la diminuzione, o declinazionc della febbre, con viscidi sudori, gravezza di testa, sonnolcnza, angoscia ed tensionc addominalc con scusaziouc dolorosa al tjitto.