Verdicts of coroners' juries : the case of the late Mr. Cordwell / by P.F. Curie.

  • Paul Curie
Date:
1845
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    A week afterwards hepar sulphuris ^ was administered ; a medicine which would promote the secretion from the mucous membrane of the larynx, and assist in throwing off any tuber- cular matter, which might otherwise accumulate in that organ. 28th Nov. — The symptoms presented the same character, with the exception that, owing, it is presumed, to prevailing fogs, the hoarseness had increased. Calcarea fa was prescribed as best calculated to counteract the atmospheric influence. This medicine would also act against the tubercular cachexia. 12th Dec.—The patient reported that the last medicine had acted powerfully on his entire system, and that it had, particu- larly, produced much dizziness, together with a sense of heaviness deep in the head behind the eyes. His nose and upper lip were swollen. The bowels had become costive. His appetite was fair, and the tongue cleaner and not so much pointed. I prescribed nux vomica, to increase the contractility of the intestines and to favour the process of digestion, so as to remove the costiveness. 24th Dec.—The patient was labouring under cold caught while skating, an exercise to which he had resorted with the idea of removing the coldness of his legs and feet, that symptom being one which gave him great annoyance. The hoarseness had in- creased, the cough had slightly returned, together with an expec- toration of phlegm and a discharge of clear mucus from the nose. He complained also of a shooting pain in the left shoulder, and a painful drawing sensation in the region of the heart, which was increased by moving the arm. The tongue was a little furred and the bowels costive. Not much difference in the pulse, which with him was usually about 90. Garbo vegetabilis and, five days afterwards, hepar sulphuris 2_ 1 2‘ I advised him to be most particular in his diet, and while his digestion was impaired to take a little less than usual. I cau- tioned him, also, against skating ; and, at the same time, in consideration of the tubercular affection under which he was labouring, recommended him to confine himself as much as possible to an equable temperature.
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