An inquiry into the physiological and medicinal properties of the veratrum viride : together with some physiological and chemical observations upon the alkaloid veratria obtained from this and other species : being the prize essay to which the American Medical Association awarded the gold medal for MDCCCLXIII / by Samuel R. Percy.

  • Percy, Samuel R.
Date:
1864
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Credit: An inquiry into the physiological and medicinal properties of the veratrum viride : together with some physiological and chemical observations upon the alkaloid veratria obtained from this and other species : being the prize essay to which the American Medical Association awarded the gold medal for MDCCCLXIII / by Samuel R. Percy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    brought under control the urine increased not only in quantity, but also in specific gravity. Any 2Jerson who treats a case of pneumonia with this remedy, and daily examines the auscultatory signs, will be 2)leased to find that he can with ease hear every sound, and arrive at a correct diagnosis of the state of the lungs, ivhen ^uithout this remedy the sounds will be obscure. In the relation of the two preceding cases, I have given the treatment and noted the number of pulsations from hour to hour. In the experiments upon animals the number of pulsations in the minute are also frequently noticed. It would seem unnecessary, therefore, in the relation of the following cases, to be thus minute; but as there are cases in which this remedy produces to the friends of the patient, and sometimes even to the physician, alarming effects, I will take one of these as a type and relate it as I have the foregoing. Case 3. Pneumo pleuritis. William T., set. 11 years. A dull boy of leuco-phlegmatic habit, whose mother died of phthisis, complained of a sharp pain on inspiration, in the lower portion of the right lung, and an uneasy, tickling cough. He had rested badly all night, and complained of alternate chills and fever. The skin was hot and feverish, the pulse 165, the respirations 32. Upon auscultation, crepitation was heard all over the lower lobes of the right lung, and over a portion of the upper lobe of the left lung. He was reclining in a rocking chair, as he said it was hard to breathe when lying down. About an hour before I saw him he had eaten a bowlful of warm bread and milk, so that I thought it better to give him no purgative medicine until after the food had digested. He passed about half a pint of urine of acid reaction and sp. gr. 1014. Date. Pulse. Respira- tious. Treatment. Dec. 4tb, 10 A. M. 165 32 Con. Tr. ver. vir. nUij- 11 165 32 Uj- 12 164 32 v\ir. 1 P. M. 164 31 viiv. 2 160 32 itUij. About 2.45 P. M., I was sent for in haste, as the boy had vomited the bread and milk, which smelt very sour and disagreeable. After vomiting he lay back, very pale and faint. When I saw him about 4 o'clock, the friends were very much alarmed, and had sent out for the first physician they could find ; he told them the