Lady Flora Hastings. The court doctor dissected; with observations on the statements of Ladies Portman and Tavistock / By John Fisher Murray.

  • John Murray
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[1839]
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Credit: Lady Flora Hastings. The court doctor dissected; with observations on the statements of Ladies Portman and Tavistock / By John Fisher Murray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “Take of Powder of ipecacuan with opium 20 grains : Simple powder of ipecacuan, 5 grains: Mix carefully together: and add as much of the Extract of Rhubarb as will make the whole into twelve pills: one to be taken at bed-time. Take of Compound Camphor Liniment, 1 ox. Compound Soap Liniment, Tincture of opium (Laudanum) of each -J oz. Mix Liniment for the side. “ (Signed) “Jam 10th 1839. «J. C.” This, with an acidulated infusion, which could do neither good nor harm, forms Sir James Clark's treat¬ ment in this case of “ bilious derangement of long standing,” with its accompaniments, pain in the side and swelling of the stomach. I put it to any medical man whether it was to be expected that, under the use of the above very simple remedies, (very simple remedies indeed) “ the bile would take its departure ?” or that placebo practice, like the above, could render any service whatever to the patient ? Derangement of the bowels is the first symptom. I ask any professional man whether the compound powder of ipecacuan was herein indicated. The general health was also deranged; no alterative remedy ap¬ pears in the prescription. There was pain low on the left side; but no trouble appears to have been taken to arrive at a correct knowledge of the morbid con¬ dition producing that pain, or of the therapeutical
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