Contributions to the military medical statistics of the Bombay Presidency / by John Kinnis.

  • Kinnis, John.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Contributions to the military medical statistics of the Bombay Presidency / by John Kinnis. 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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    Erysipelas,—Of 4 cases of erysipelas, one in the 83d regiment died. He was a tine young recruit. The disej^se attacked the head and face, numerous abscesses formed over the scalp, and he sunk from congestion of the brain after 12 days treatment. The he^d and face were much swollen, the tissues of the scalp broken by suppuration, the vessels of the brain and pia mater highly dis- tended, and there was copious effusion of bloody serum in the ven- tricles and base of the brain. Carditis.—A fatal case under carditis in a young soldier of the 78th regiment, two years and a half in India, who had suffered much from anasarca, and was admitted 9th September 1849, with symptoms of colonitis. Leeches were applied and oil ad- ministered. Next day the breathing was oppressed, pulse small, surface covered with perspiration ; he moaned, and was unable to speak or swallow. Sinapisms to the chest and stimulants gave no relief, and he died on the 13th. The heart was found enlarged with fatty matter adherent to the pericardium, which contained four ounces and a half of serum. Calculipassiny from Kidney to Bladder.—The following in- teresting case of two urinary calculi, formed in the left kidney, finding their way through the ureter to the bladder, is abridged from Dr Thom's Report. 86th Regiment.—William Craig, aged twenty-two, an Irishman of temperate habits, and leucophlegmatic temperament of three years service, was admitted 19th August 1848, complaining of a feeling of weight in both lumbar regions, of twelve months dura- tion, with dysuria and languor, but no vomiting or pyrexia. He had great difficulty in passing urine, and scalding pain along the ure- thra: he had no appetite; a pale anxious countenance; dry skin; sunk eyes ; and a peculiar bluish tinge of the lower eyelids, with an ammoniacal odour from the body. Urine was stated to resemble at first thick pus, then to become clear. The bowels were open; the urine pale, alkaline, strongly ammoniacal. The urine being ascer- tained by chemical tests to be albuminous, he was placed on gener- ous diet, vegetables and drinks, and the internal use of nitric acid and nitrate of potass, but with no very obvious advantage. On the 2d September, he passed two small thin, smooth, lamellated pieces of calculus, resembling phosphate of lime. Left kidney was the chief seat of uneasiness, countenance like that of a person with cholera, a strong ammoniacal odour. First warm baths and cupping of the loins, then nitrate of potash and conium, produced no good effect. Then, 5th October, guaiacum mixture was given with great benefit; and on the 8th, the urine was again tested, but no precipitates could, as before, be obtained from it. He appeared to be recovered, and was discharged 17th October. He was re-admitted on the 20l]i with oedema of the knees, without pain or urinary affection ;