Facts establishing the efficacy of the opiate friction in spasmodic and febrile diseases. Also, outlines of an attempt to investigate the nature, causes, and method of cure, of hydrophobia and tetanus ... To which are added, cases and remarks / [Michael Ward].

  • Ward, Michael, active 1809.
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[1809]
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Credit: Facts establishing the efficacy of the opiate friction in spasmodic and febrile diseases. Also, outlines of an attempt to investigate the nature, causes, and method of cure, of hydrophobia and tetanus ... To which are added, cases and remarks / [Michael Ward]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    been relieved twice since the beginning of the complaint: the urine is small in quantity, and voided with considerable pain. <e At my visit on the 18th. I found most of the symptoms of the preceding day still more strongly marked, and, in addition, Miss E. complained of great uneasiness at the root of the tongue, accompanied by a constant feel- ing of fulness of the throat, arising to a most flj distressful sense of suffocation, whenever she at- tempted to swallow the saliva, which was secreted in unusual abundance. Slight convulsive mo- tions of the muscles of the face, particularly of the frontal muscle, were now perceptible. Her breathing was short and quick ; her pulse fre- quent and fluttering. During the night, which was sleepless, and passed under great agitation of mind, she was much annoyed by hiccup, which increased the severity of the pain at the pit of the stomach. Her thoughts were perturbed and anxious; she sighed deeply and often, and the expression of her countenance, which is naturally mild and cheerful, was grim and gloomy. Although she made no reference what- soever to the accident in her foot, rvhen pressure was applied this morning to the little speck which J have already mentioned, the muscles of the face and arms were immediately convulsed, and increased pain was felt about the throat and jaws, As soon, a less degree than if it had been administered alone ; while the other will of course produce little, if any, sensible effect.]