Clinical observations on the pathology and treatment of continued fever : from cases occurring in the medical practice of St. Bartholomew's Hospital / by Edward Latham Ormerod.

  • Edward Ormerod
Date:
1848
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Credit: Clinical observations on the pathology and treatment of continued fever : from cases occurring in the medical practice of St. Bartholomew's Hospital / by Edward Latham Ormerod. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    taking with him some purgative medicine, which he had asked for on account of the relief which he had before found from its use. He had a little headache at this time, but not enough to constitute a source of complaint in a man who was anxious to return to his work. He came back. May 21, with a pale and anxious face; respi- ration hurried, 40; skin warm and moist, slightly mottled; tongue moist, with a thin brown fur on the dorsum, the tip red and clean; bowels much relaxed from the medicine. He com- plained of pain in the head, thirst, and debility. It appeared that the headache had continued after Iris discharge, but he slept well that nig]it. Next day, having taken some of the medicine, he was violently purged; that night he was restless, the next delirious, and now he is so weak that he can hardly walk. Ordered, wine, eight ounces; beef, for tea, two pounds; a saline draught, with camphor mixture,* and half a drachm of compound spirits of ammonia every four hours, and five grains of compound mercury and chalk pill thrice a day. * 1. Saline draught with Camphor mixture. Liq. Amm. Acetatis, 5ij- Mist. Camphorse, 5vj- Aquae destillatae, 5yj. This draught is much used in the treatment of fever, or of any cases requiring constant watching. It is not so likely to purge as the more agreeable saline the tartrate of soda, and being ordered to be taken at short intervals insures constant attention on the part of the nurses, while, if it does no more actual good than to refresh, it is sure to do no harm to the patients. 2. Compound mercury and chalk pill. Ilyd. c. Creta. Pulv. Ipec. co. aa. gr. ijss. Sacchari Foecis, q. s. The form in which, in all fevers with affection of the bowels requiring its use, mercury is employed.