Report of two hundred and four interesting cases, selected from among those treated by Doctor E. Fellerer, resident physician of the Orange Mountain Hydropathic Institution, South Orange, New Jersey.

  • Fellerer, E. (Edward)
Date:
1853
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Credit: Report of two hundred and four interesting cases, selected from among those treated by Doctor E. Fellerer, resident physician of the Orange Mountain Hydropathic Institution, South Orange, New Jersey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his hands and feet are constantly cold. The liver shows itself in quite a torpid slate. The patient was only a few weeks with us, and did not improve at all, which may be at- tributed to the hopelessness of a case pro- gressed so far as his. FEBRIS INTERMITTENS QUOTIDIANA. {Quotidian Intermittent Fever.) Mr. , 29 years old, pretty spare, emacia- ted countenance, and black hair. Had, on his arrival from the West, an inter- mittent fever, with which he had been troubled for more than a year. He had it every day while he was here. Before the fever came on, a general indisposition, lassitude, pains in the limbs, and blueness of the nails were observed. Then followed a feeling of cold, all over his body, as if cold water were trickling down the back, his teeth chattering, arid the limbs and jaws shaking. Pulse small. Inspiration quite impeded. The skin felt cold throughout, and the chill lasted about one hour, when the symp- toms of the cold stage gradually disappeared, and the skin became flushed, and pulse fre- quent, the breathing freer, and the thirst very great. Finally, a general sweat appeared, smelling very sour. The patient was here only two weeks, and not relieved at all from his fever. I am inclined to think, however, that if he had had the cou- rage to persevere, he might have been cured. FEERIS INTERMITTENS TERTIANA. {Intermittent Fever every other Day.) Mrs. , 33 years old, pale-yellow com- plexion, black eyes and hair, and of a very delicate constitution. When the lady put herself under my care, she was very near being a victim to Allopathy. I found her so debilitated, that she was notable to raise a limb. She complained of a violent cutting pain in the pit of the heart. Her countenance looked pale and sunken, her lips and nails blue, and her eyes had no lustre or expression. The skin was sallow, dry, and cold, the mouth and lips were parched, the thirst was excessive. The pulse frequent, small, and hard, urinating trifling, and the urine itself, white as water. Every other fore- noon she had a violent fever and ague of increasing intensity ; the chill lasting for two hours, made her teeth chatter and gave her tonic spasms. The heat which succeeded ex- panded itself all over the skin, and made it much flushed ; yet the skin remained dry. At the same time were observed an increase of thirst, fulness, and heaviness of the head, and a great sensibility of the perceptive organs. The liver was inflamed, and the least touch of it made the patient scream loudly. The spleen was somewhat indurated. The quinine and opium, prescribed by her allopathic physicians, had certainly increased the inflammation of the liver. The emaciated countenance, bedewed with cold perspiration, and the icy hands and feet} presented a sorry specimen of the art of heal- ing. But nature's simple remedy, pure water,' applied in the manner that the symptoms of the patient indicated, disarmed death of a power which men of undoubted skill and learning had found it impossible to overcome. By packings in a wet sheet, half-baths, wet bandages, injec- tions, and pourings of more or less cold water, the poor patient was out of danger within four weeks after her arrival here. In the fifth week she was able to take exercise out of doors, and in the seventh week to walk three miles a day. After a critical diarrhoea had re- lieved the lady of her superabundance of des- tructive medicines, the liver assumed its physio- logical functions, and the spleen its normal state and size. DYSCRASY AND CACHEXY. {Asthenia—(General Debility.) Case 1.—Mrs. , tall of size, pale-yellow complexion, blue eyes and black hair. The patient has been sick for the last three years, and from day to day felt more and more reduced. She has lost nearly all muscular power, and therefore, her weariness and ex- haustion are great. A chill often comes over her, and she has constantly a cold sensation in the stomach. Her extremities are cold also. After every meal, she has headache in the fore- head, and pressure over the eyes, apparently connected with a pressure in the region of the stomach, which latter is owing to her satisfy- ing an unconquerable diseased disposition to eat. Her digestion, of course, is poor ; her evacuations are pretty regular. She has pain in the lower part of the back, which has be- come more sensible since her now habitual discharge of the whites. Combined with her extraordinary lassitude, is a great nervous sen- sibility. Whenever her mind is affected, she has a palpitation of the heart, and the least noise deprives her all night of sleep. A walk of only a mile weakened her so much, that she laid down for several days after, crying and desponding. Her menstruation is regular. After having been in the treatment six months, the patient returned home, perfectly cured ;