The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French.

  • French, John George, 1804-1887.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    July 10.—9, a.m. Heat of forehead. Grinding of the teeth. Occasional delirium. Ordered—Hirudines iv. temporibus apponendee. 9, p.m. Pulse 98. More sensible. July 11.—9, a.m. Tongue covered with brown fur. Pulse 96. Has passed a bilious motion, with which probably there is some urine, otherwise has passed none since the com- mencement of her disorder. Skin cool. Ordered—A little wine and arrow-root occasionally. 9, p.m. Some improvement. Has passed a small quantity of urine. July 13.—9, a.m. Tongue very red and moist. Consider- able disposition to sighing. Has slept a good deal at inter- vals during the night. Pulse 94. Ordered—Beef tea with arrow-root. July 14.—Convalescent, but still weak to a considerable degree. July ] 7.—Left the hospital recovered. 4.—Elizabeth Coy, setat. 10 years, whose health pre- viously had been somewhat delicate. Was attacked on the 10th of July, 1832, with purging, vomiting, and cramps. She was admitted into the hospital at 7, a.m. July 10.—7, a.m. Purging and vomiting of a rice water appearance. Cramps in the legs and hands. Pulse nearly imperceptible. Eyes deeply sunken. Skin, tongue and hreath very cold. Voice low. Great thirst. Ordered—Mist, salinse % i. pro re nata. Water ad libitmn. Catapl. siriap. scrob. cordis et spinse. Hot bottles to the feet. 2, p.m. Skin not so cold. Thirst less. Vomiting and purging not so frequent.