Medical sketches on the following subjects; I. On the use of Hellebore, as a remedy for insanity and other diseases. II. Of Colchicum Autumnale, and its use in medicine. III. Observations on the sudden death of women in child-bed / by George Kerr.

  • Kerr, George.
Date:
1818
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Credit: Medical sketches on the following subjects; I. On the use of Hellebore, as a remedy for insanity and other diseases. II. Of Colchicum Autumnale, and its use in medicine. III. Observations on the sudden death of women in child-bed / by George Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    affections of the uterus, he says, produce violent and dangerous symptoms, by affect- ing the heart and organs of respiration. “ The pulse intermits, becomes quite irre- “ gular, and fails, the respiration is violently “ interrupted, the patient becomes speech- “ less and insensible, the breathing is with “ difficulty perceived, or is altogether im- “ perceptible, and death suddenly and un- “ expectedly closes the scene*.” In this concise, and in the original very elegant account of the symptoms, brought on by violent spasm affecting the uterus, the author does not particularly allude to the disease as it affects women in childbed, for * <T(pvyy.oi JiaAcruroplet, aLxxloi, ixXciuTovIes, xocgUgn, oitpooviy, ccuxi$n<TEi, n oci/cizrvori <x<n wxtj-oj kchi u-mros o