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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    incessant, and he had no sleep whatever. In the morning his strength was much sunk; the pulse was 8'2, and weak. He could not be ad- vised to continue the medicine, but had a small dejection that morning from an enema. The vomiting continued with little intermission throughout the whole day of the 25th ; the stomach rejected every thing that was swallowed. Observing that when the primes vice were open, the nausea and vomiting were less violent, I urged him to take some aperient medicine, and being; convinced he had derived benefit from the solution of the sulphate of magnesia in the infusion of gentian, I pressed him to take a full dose of that medicine, and accordingly he took it that morning. It emptied the bowels well: it had not, however, the usual good effect of lessening the vomiting —that distressing sym- ptom continued. He had an evening accession of fever, was restless, and raving at times until three o'clock in the morning of the 26th ; he then went to sleep, and did not awake until seven : soon after that he was seized again with violent vomiting; what came off the stomach was something undigested, mixed with phlegm of a ropy consistence. On the morning of the 26th the pulse was c