On the use of the the hypophosphites of soda and lime in the treatment of consumption / by John C. Thorowgood.

  • Thorowgood, John C. (John Charles), 1833-1913.
Date:
1865
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Credit: On the use of the the hypophosphites of soda and lime in the treatment of consumption / by John C. Thorowgood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    small cavity had formed. The boy looking very pale and anaemic, got in place of the hypophosphite and bark, Unctr. ferri. ]\{x. ; Intus. calumbse, 5j. M. ter. Pt. ol. February 8t7i.—Decidedly worse for the change in the medi- cine. DiaiThoea returned and pulse risen to 100. Cough and expectoration not increased. Eesume hypophosphite and bark as before. He soon improved again, lost his cough, gained flesh and strength, and on April 4th he was let go with a quinine mixture to take for a fortnight. The moist sounds in the left lung were almost gone, but the bronchial breathing over a small space made me think a cavity must have formed. Notliing more was seen of this patient till May 15, 1865, when he again presented himself He says that after his dis- charge on April 4, 1864, he kept in good health up to six weeks back, when the cough returned, with profuse expectoration, and sickness and vomiting. The diarrhoea also has of late troubled him much. The signs of a cavity in the left lung are most unmistakeable now, and some moist clicks are distinct in the right lung. Pulse 124. Ordered 01. morrh. 3ij. ter die., and tine, ferri c, liq. morphias for fourteen days. May 29th.—No better in any respect; vomits his food when he coughs. * Continue the oil and take, in place of the morphia and steel mixture, Calcis hypopliosphitis, gr. iij.; Decoct, ciiichon., §ss. M. ter die. V June 12th.—Much better ; less cough, less expectoration, and no diarrhoea; continue treatment for a fortnight. He improved considerably, but left off attending before I was at all satisfied as to the disease being fairly arrested. Case 10.—Early in January, 1864, a pale, emaciated man, not long out of the workhouse, came to me as an hospital patient, and told ine that his illness commenced nine months back, with attacks of profuse haemoptysis. From that time to this he has been losing strength and flesh, has much cough with often bloody expectoration, and is so short breathed that he can hardly walk across the room, and can speak but few consecutive words at a time. Pulse 124 ; tongue large and clean. Physical Signs.—Breathing very bronchial at right infra- clavicle, with moist sounds, and also at right supra-spinous fossa; bronchophony decided in both these places. The lower