Volume 1

Medical and miscellaneous observations relative to the West India Islands / by John Williamson, M.D., fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, formerly surgeon to the Caithness Highlanders, and late of Spanish Town, Jamaica.

  • Williamson, John (Surgeon)
Date:
1817
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Credit: Medical and miscellaneous observations relative to the West India Islands / by John Williamson, M.D., fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, formerly surgeon to the Caithness Highlanders, and late of Spanish Town, Jamaica. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    his nourishment, but expressed by gestures his dislike to the powder ; it regularly produced diaphoresis; ene- ma to be repeated. 10//^.—While dressing him, articulated feebly, but ra- tionally, for the first time j pulse sixty-four, and re- gular. 11///.—Had a tolerable night, but his bowels ra- ther confined, though the enema had been used ; an in- fusion of Glauber's salts, in graduated doses, procured copious evacuations in the evening; pulse sixty-four, and regular ; the powder as formerly. I2th,—Spoke more distinctly ; complained of the wound; in other respects improved 5 slept a great deal; his mental faculties still very weak j continued the powder. 15/^.—Much as before. 20^^.^An exfoliation of bone going on ; continued better ; ordered to be kept quiet; on light, but nou- rishing diet; and due attention to preserve an open state of bowels. 28///.—Senses gradually restored ; sore doing well. March 30th.—Continued recovering ; exfoliation going on ; same precautions as to diet, rest, and keep- ing the bowels open, to be observed. Jpril l^th.—A spherical portion of bone separated, an inch and a half in length, consisting only of the outer table, and, adhering to it, some of the diploe.