Observations on gangrenes and mortifications, accompanied with, or occasioned by, convulsive spasms, or arising from local injury, producing irritation / by Charles White.

Date:
1790
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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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    [ *7 ] grains of muik and fix grains of fait of hartlhorn were ventured on, every three hours. She took, by this means, eighty grains of mulk and forty-eight grains of fait of hartfhorn every day, and, though a tender and delicate girl, they were lo far from heating her, that every bad fymptom of fever gradually ceafcd. The decoction of the hark was then dire<5ted; but the difliked the tafle, fo much, that the took very little of it. In about ten days, the mortification was not only flopped, but far advanced in its feparation, and every other difagreeable apprehenfion vanifhed. The bolus was in confequence only given twice each day, and Ike was prevailed upon to take the bark as being lefs ex pc olive. On this change of medicine every bad iymptom fpeedily returned; her pulfe became as quick as ever, and her deli- rium and lofs of fleep were equally as troublefome. The bark was therefore thrown afide, and recourfe again had to the bolus, every three hours, which foon produced the very favourable appearances that had before attended it. She continued the ufc of it, till the had taken two ounces