Clinical lectures on the curability of attacks of tubercular peritonitis and acute phthisis (galloping consumption).

  • Anderson, McCall, 1836-1908.
Date:
1877
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Credit: Clinical lectures on the curability of attacks of tubercular peritonitis and acute phthisis (galloping consumption). Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    posed of a drachm of carbonate of ammonia, three drachms of syrup of squills, and six ounces of infusion of senega, a tablespoonful to be taken three times a day. The appli- cation to the abdomen of folded pieces of flannel wrung out of iced water for half an hour from time to time, temporarily lowered the temperature about one degree; but T have since had reason to suspect that this treatment was not very efficiently carried out.1 1 The application of iced cloths is made iu this way. The night dress is pulled well up over the chest so as to avoid any possibility of its being wet, and, for a similar reason, a folded blanket is placed across the bed under the patient's body. The usual bed-clothes are arranged so that they reach up to the lower part of the chest only, which latter is covered with a separate blanket in order to prevent un- necessary exposure while the iced cloths are being changed. Two pieces of flannel are employed in the process, each being sufficiently large, when folded into four layers, to cover the whole of the front and sides of the abdomen. One of these, wrung out of iced water, is applied, while the other is left in a large basin filled with iced water at the side of the