An essay on the action and curative properties of strychnia : to which the Annual Medal of the Harveian Medical Society was awarded in 1832 . / by James Marr.

Marr, James.

Date:: [1832?]

Credit: An essay on the action and curative properties of strychnia : to which the Annual Medal of the Harveian Medical Society was awarded in 1832 . / by James Marr. 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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$Case II.— October 19, 1832.—Johanna Sinclair, ast, 36, resides in Leith Wynd, health and habits reported good; was attacked three days ago with purging, which has continued ever since. Vomiting came on this afternoon about five o'clock. Admitted 11 p. m. Pulse small and weak; not count- able; universal coldness of surface; tongue white and cold; countenance collapsed, eyes sunk, and surrounded with dark areola; lividity of lips and hands; fingers shrivelled; has had considerable characteristic vomiting since admission; says she is advanced six months in pregnancy. Steam-bed—whisky toddy. St. Pil. Strych. gr. \ omni hora. 20^A, Ten a. m. Has taken seven of the strychnia pills, when, startings having come on, they were stopped. Pulse 120, of tolerable strength ; skin warm, tongue moist, rather foul; thirst considerable; has had one scanty evacuation, but passed no urine since admission; appears to be very drowsy. Abscind, capillse ; cold applications to be applied to her head. The drowsiness, in this case, went on as usual to coma m spite of various remedies, and she died early on the morning of the 21st. Sectio ca<?a?;em.—Surface of brain highly injected; dark fluid blood in longitudinal and lateral sinuses. Heart, ecchy- motic spots on surface ; fibrinous clots in right auricle, ven- tricle, and pulmonary artery, and vena cava descendens; lungs much engorged; bronchi contained dark frothy mucus; kidneys contained a small quantity of puriform fluid in the pelvis of each. Case IIL—Octohei' 2Is^.—Francis Muir, aet. 58, a hair- dresser. Wife died of cholera, son at present ill of it m Hospital. Previous health and habits reported good. Was seized with purging this afternoon about four o'clock. Has had no vomitings or cramps. ^ Admitted at six p.m. Pulse 67, fuU; tongue warm, moist, ana whitish ; shght thirst; surface natural; voice slightly affected,$