The Therapeutical Society of New York.

Date:
[1879?]
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Credit: The Therapeutical Society of New York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    severe gastralgia next day, I had ten grains chloral hydrat. added to each injection, given four times daily, while the pain lasted, the quantity of blood being increased gradually to four ounces. These injections continue to the present time (January 13th), though vomiting ceased on the 8th, and she takes with a relish small draughts of milk, soup, etc. Case XLIX. Dyspepsia, reported by Dr. Smith.—John G., patient at St. Luke’s Hospital, had for some months vomited all solid food. Epi¬ gastric pain and tenderness. No blood vomited. Very much emaciated. Confined to bed. Took six, and subsequently seven, ounces twice a day, very little food being taken by the mouth. Gained six pounds in six weeks, and the irritability of the stomach was greatly lessened. Left his bed, and was finally detailed to bring the daily supply of blood from the slaughter-house to the hospital. Before resorting to the use of the ene- mata, milk diet, electricity, blisters, and a great variety of drugs were tried, with hut slight and temporary benefit. Case L. Dyspepsia, transcribed from the records of St. Luke’s Hos¬ pital.—Patient, William T., four years and a half old, was admitted Octo¬ ber 21, 1878. For five or six months had been running down without assignable cause. Examination shows extreme emaciation, anaemia, en¬ larged liver, veins of abdomen injected, and stomach distended. Ordered syr. ferri iodid., gtt. iij, t. i. d. Ex. malt, § j, t. i. d. November 1st.—Improving in general appearance. January 1st.—For some days patient has been vomiting nearly every¬ thing taken into stomach. Ordered milk diet. 23d.—Not materially improving, though vomits less frequently. Pa¬ tient weighs twenty-three pounds without clothes. Ordered enemata of defibrinated beef-blood, § ij, h. i. d. 31st.—Weighs twenty-four pounds and a half. Looking much better ; running about the ward. February 8th.—Weighs twenty-five pounds and a half. Lips red; cheeks filled out and rosy; abdomen less distended; and in every wmy pa¬ tient looks a healthy child. Case LI. Dyspepsia.—James K., private patient of Dr. Smith. Case had continued for about eight months, the patient vomiting after nearly every meal, if even the smallest amount of solid food was taken. He be¬ came very much emaciated, and was supposed by his friends to have con¬ sumption. The only treatment ordered was an injection twice a day of a teacupful of blood and the application of a belladonna plaster over the stomach. The vomiting ceased in the course of three or four days, and at the end of seventeen days it was found that he had gained eleven pounds and a half. Case LII. Dyspepsia, reported by Dr. Bayles.—Patient aged sixty- two. So intolerant was the stomach of food that gastric ulcer or morbid growth about the pylorus was suspected. For two months nothing was taken by the mouth except a little weak claret and water, toast-water, or tea with milk, the nutrition being kept up by enemata of beef’s blood. At
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