Remarks on the climate and the principal diseases occurring in Belgium / by James Milman Coley.

  • Coley, James Milman.
Date:
1852
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Remarks on the climate and the principal diseases occurring in Belgium / by James Milman Coley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    very little time will be allowed for vaseular deple- tion , beeause in all cases of a typhoid nature the elements of the blood arc so changed as not to ad- mit of the production of healthy, adhesive lymph nor pus-globules which terminate inflammation in a healthy constitution ; hut on the contrary a mor- bid product of a peculiar kind, having but slight resemblance to pus and containing no coagulahle lymph, is rapidly deposited on various parts of the peritoneal surface. After this result has taken place, bleeding is injurious by hastening collapse. Prompt and judicious, local bleeding and small doses of chloride of mercury will generally remove the pain and equalize the circulation by imparling a temporary stimulus to the minute vessels occu- ])ied with ineffectual struggles to overcome the in- flammatory obstruction in their tubes. Should delirium ultimately supervene, it will be found by an accurate observer not to result from translated inflammation, but from that exhaustion of the ner- vous excitability, which occurs in every instance towards the fatal termination of all Inflammatory and febrile diseases. Ncitherwine nor barkshould be given, until all inflammation has been subdued and a kind and general relaxation of the vessels of the skin, manifested by free perspiration and the separation of the fur on the tongue, may have taken place. 0. The congestive species of typhus is full of apparent and real danger, fhe danger is in ap-