An essay on the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption / by George Bodington; with a preface by Arthur E. Bodington.

  • Bodington George, 1799-1882.
Date:
1906
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Credit: An essay on the treatment and cure of pulmonary consumption / by George Bodington; with a preface by Arthur E. Bodington. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    inevitable by her friends ; she was therefore brought to me as a forlorn hope. She came on the 14th of November. On the 15th she was called up at eight o'clock a.m., after a bad night of incessant coughing. After breakfasting with what appetite she had, she got into an open phaeton, and was driven four miles. She coughed at first, but in ten minutes it ceased ; she alighted at a house and went into a warm sitting room, where the cough returned imme- diately ; after a short stay she returned home, and on the road the cough nearly ceased to trouble her. She took a little wine and water at eleven, a.m., and at two, p.m., dined on fresh mutton. In the afternoon rode out on the don- key some time ; retired to bed at eight o'clock, taking an anodyne draught of morphine. She slept well, and on the 16th rose at half-past seven. After breakfast she rode out on a donkey and walked alternately till one o'clock. After dinner, drove out in the phaeton four miles and back. Coughed rather more this afternoon ; of Birmingham; she survived her husband, and died at Chelten- ham, 29th March, 1902, aged 82 years.]