A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies : ... to which is added, a practical treatise on scorbutic dysentery, with some facts and observations relative to scurvy / by R.W. Bampfield.

  • Bampfield, R. W. (Robert William), -1827.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A practical treatise on tropical dysentery, more particularly as it occurs in the East Indies : ... to which is added, a practical treatise on scorbutic dysentery, with some facts and observations relative to scurvy / by R.W. Bampfield. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3j0 mixed with mucus and blood: rep. sue: limon: cumpulv: rhei 9ss maiie. 31st. The bowels are purged ; stools faecal; the gums are much affected with scurvy ; rep. sue: liiiion: et opiuu). January 1st, 1807, The Belliqueux anchored in Malacca Roads today, and supplies of fruit, vegetables, and beef, were obtained for the men ; the scorbutic symptoms are checked; the bowels are merely in a lax state, he is however weak and emaciated: rep. rned. 2d. The bowels are regular and he is better; he was put on a fresh diet, and used fresh limes instead of lime juice. 3d. Is costive, and has pain of the bowels, the scurvy recedes : capt. pulv. rhei 5ss, mane, et pul. ipec. co. 9ss. cum aq. menth. pip. vespere : rep* dimta et fructus. 4th, 5th. The bowels are regular, the scorbutic symptoms were gradually removed, and he had no further necessity for medicine, except on the 9th, when he was purged and griped, and took an anodyne aromatic draught. He was sent to duty on the 16th, free from complaint. This was the first case of scorbutic dy sentery that occurred in my practice. W illiain Yates’s, that oc- curred in the same voyage, was tlie second, and as the simple treatment was very fortunate, and no un- pleasant symptom ensued from the action of the acid on the intestines, it was adopted as an established practice, and was generally followed by success. Sub- sequent experience has convinced me, that mercurial purires are unnecessary, and was a practice engrafted from the treatment of simple dysentery. It may be expected, that I should adduce cases to prove, that mercury is injurious as well as unneces- sary ; but it can hardly be supposed by any one, ^bat I should deviate fiom tlie simple ])ractice my experience had so early found to be efficacious, to