Volume 1

Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton.

  • Sutton, Thomas, 1767-1835.
Date:
1813
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Credit: Tracts on delirium tremens, on peritonitis, and on some other internal inflammatory affections, and on the gout / by Thomas Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CASE 7; This patient was verging towards sixty years of age. I found him in a state of mild delirium, and forgetfulness, but capable of rational answers when ad- dressed. He had, for some days preced- ing, enjoyed no comfortable repose ; was restless, but not inclined to make violent efforts. He had complamed of some pain in his head, was disinclined from food, and vomited sometimes. The pulse, when [ first saw him, was very little altered from its natural standard ; nor was there any increase of tempera- ture on the skin, amounting to fever. ‘The tongue was furred, though not dry, the countenance contracted and inanimate, the eyes suffused, the hands were in con- siderable tremor, and the patient was constantly picking the bed-clothes. ‘The disease, in this patient, was attacked by - a blister to the back, by opening the bowels, by: mild cathartics, by cordial