Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases : and on aneurisms / by John Abernethy.

  • John Abernethy
Date:
1825
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Credit: Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases : and on aneurisms / by John Abernethy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    much colder than the other; but the limbs at the knees were nearly of an equal tem- perature. Sunday, ] 2th. I visited her early in the morning, and found that she had been mo- derately quiet during the night; that she had suffered much pain in her foot, but none in the wound. The pain in the limb she described as having first attacked the thigh, next the leg, and afterwards the foot, which last pain had now ceased. The foot was warmer than it was the preceding even- ing, and in a state of perspiration: it was four degrees of heat lower, by Fahrenheit's scale, than that of the healthy limb. The superficial veins of the leg were filled with blood. Her pulse was 96. She had no appetite. I left her with a promise to visit her again at night, recommending her to lie quiet, and take some simple nourishment. About noon, one of the dressers, observing that her skin was hot, and her tongue dry, gave her some saline medicine, with a small quantity of antimonial wine, which occa- sioned vomiting, and such continued nau-. sea,