Dysentery and its treatment : with an account of six years' experience in the Transvaal and Matabeleland in the use of some varieties of monsonia as the curative agent / by John Maberly.

  • Maberly, John
Date:
1897
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Credit: Dysentery and its treatment : with an account of six years' experience in the Transvaal and Matabeleland in the use of some varieties of monsonia as the curative agent / by John Maberly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    prescribed by one of the medical men without effect. On the 8th I was summoned to attend the patient at Johannes- burg and ordered him one drachm of tincture of monsonia every three hours. After the third dose the pain and tenesmus disappeared and the motions became feculent. He continued taking the drug during the daytime till the 12th, when the bowels became normal and only open once a day. Case 3. Chronic dysentery.—In May, 1890, a man, aged twenty-seven years, was suddenly attacked, while marching with a detachment of police in Bechuanaland, with pain in the lower part of the abdomen, especially in the right iliac region. Ten minutes later he passed a motion mixed with a large quantity of blood. Two days afterwards he was taken to Macloutsie Hospital, where he had from twelve to twenty dysenteric motions a day. He was seventy days in hospital undergoing various forms of treatment and was eventually apparently cured by doses (20 grains) of pulvis ipecacuanhas. He returned to Kimberley by waggon and had another attack of dysentery on the road. On Aug. 2nd he went into the Kimberley Hospital for treatment and remained there till Sept. 8th, when he left for Natal. In March, 1891, he returned to Johannesburg apparently well. On the 13th, however, dull pain recommenced in the lower part of the abdomen and the bowels became loose. On the 23rd he went into Johannesburg Hospital suffering from a sharp relapse of dysentery. He was treated with large doses of ipecacuanha and left convalescent on the 26th. He con- tinued on a milk diet, but the bowels again became loose, blood and mucus again appearing. On March 30th, 1891, I first saw the patient and ordered him one-drachm doses of tincture of monsonia every six hours. He passed a little blood occasionally till April 2nd. From that date till the 12th the dysenteric symptoms disappeared and the bowels gradually resumed their normal condition For twelve months sub- sequently the patient enjoyed good health, after which I lost sight of him. CASE 4. Acute dysentery.—A man, aged twenty-six years, was on July 20oh, 1891, seized with a sudden attack of diarrhoea, accompanied by a burning sensation down the spine, with griping pains in the lower part of the abdomen. The temperature was 99° F. and the pulse 92. A lead and opium pill (5 grains) was administered, followed by a solution of quinine (5 grain*) in dilute hydrochloric acid (5 minims)
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