Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases; and on aneurisms. Including directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive organs / [John Abernethy].

  • John Abernethy
Date:
1826
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Credit: Surgical observations on the constitutional origin and treatment of local diseases; and on aneurisms. Including directions for the treatment of disorders of the digestive organs / [John Abernethy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any sleep. As the salts had produced no effect, the same medicine was ordered in an infusion of senna, with the addition of some of the tincture, which, by being given in very small doses, was retained. When, however, it seemed likely that no effect would result from this medicine, a grain of calomel was given at night, and repeated on the following morning. Still the loath¬ ing of food continued. The third night passed, like the former ones, without sleep, and in great anxiety. On the next morn¬ ing, two pills, containing five grains of the pil. colocynth. and the same quantity of the pil. aloet. cum myrrha, were given every fourth hour. These procured no stool, nor produced any sensation which inclined the patient to believe that they would oper¬ ate. Again he passed a sleepless night; but, towards the morning, he felt his bowels apparently filling,to use his own expression, and a profuse discharge ensued. A dozen copious, fetid, and black evacuations took place between five and ten o’clock, and he had several others in the course of the day ; after which his appetite returned, his tongue became
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