Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom.
- Winterbottom, Thomas Masterman, 1765-1859.
- Date:
- 1800
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Some observations relative to the climate and diseases of Sierra Leone / by Thomas Masterman Winterbottom. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ I05 ] ' * # month, in a woman, who had been delivered about ten days, after an eafy labour. It was not accompanied by any affection of the bowels, but terminated fatally on the fixth day after the attack, owing in great meafure to her obfrinacy, in refuting medicines till it was too late. Except the cafe of fever, and one of peripneumony in a woman, nearly at the term of parturition, no acute difeafe of any confequence occurred in the prefent* month. The peripneumony began in the former month, but was not regarded by the patient until at¬ tended with conli dcrable dyfpnoea, hectic flufli- ings, and night fweats ; the pain was very acute under the left breaft, and there was a confiderable expectoration of a puriform matter, which had been preceded by frequent flight chills ; the pulfe was frnall, but hard and quick ; a blitter had been applied to the pained part, but without effeCt. An opiate w'as exhi¬ bited every night, and an emetic compofed of V antiin. tart, and vitriol, cupr. aa gr. ii. was given every fecond morning, and during the intermediate days, the pilula fcillae Pharmac. Land- was ufed. By the life erf thefe reme¬ dies the fymptoms gradually abated, and at the end of this month no other complaint re¬ mained but a flight degree of hoarfenefs. Early in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30476732_0099.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
