A brief attempt to shew the truth and value of homoeopathy, with illustrations of homoeopathic practice / [John Edward Norton].

  • Norton, John Edward, -1871.
Date:
1850
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Credit: A brief attempt to shew the truth and value of homoeopathy, with illustrations of homoeopathic practice / [John Edward Norton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    i regained its wonted expression, and her convalescence proceeded without any return of the pain. Case VII.-—Peritonitis, (Inflammation of the investing membrane of the Bowels). I was called to see, on the 23rd December, 1846, Mrs. M., aged sixty-eight, about eight o’clock in the even¬ ing. She had taken cold a few days ago, and during the last twelve hours had felt a sharp pain in the bowels, increasing in severity with each succeeding hour. The pain was so severe as to oblige her to lie perfectly still and motionless, with her knees drawn up, and her shoulders supported by pillows. She could not bear the slightest pressure upon the bowels, and dreaded even the bed-clothes touching the seat of the inflammation. She had taken no food during the day, but had drank water unceasingly to assuage her thirst. The tongue was dry and coated ; the pulse made 120 beats in a minute, and felt hard and wiry. All the natural secretions were diminished. Not¬ withstanding her age, I felt assured from the high tone the inflammation had assumed, that Aconite would free her from all danger on that ground, but I was not without apprehension for the sequences, which might be more severe than she could bear up against. I ordered,—Two drops of the Tincture of Aconite of the 3rd potency, to be taken every hour. On the morning of the 24th, I found that she had been rest¬ less during the night, and talking incoherently in her sleep, the pain in the bowels, however, was something easier, for she could bear to be gently pressed upon