Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White.
- Date:
- 1790
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White. 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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![[ *3 ] CASE III. On the firft of May 1782, a maiden lady about forty years of age, and of a very corpulent habit of body, was feized with cold (hiverings, fuccecded by much fever, and an eryfipelas in her face. A very fenhblc apothecary, who firll faw her, fent her a purging potion, an aperi- ent glyfter, and fome alkaline draughts, with a grain of camphor, to be taken with lemon juice in the a& of cffervefcence, which were to be repeated every four hours. The next day the purging potion was again ordered. I faw her on the third, and found her in a flate of deli- rium, with great drowlinefs, fubfultus tendinum, attended with naufea, a very quick pulfe, and the face much fwelled and livid. I directed her an aperient apofem with nitre, to be taken occa- fionally ; and a bolus, compofcd of ten grains of mufk and ten grains of the cordial confe&ion, to be repeated every five or fix hours. On the fourth, the naufea](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21946279_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
