Observations on the healthy and diseased properties of the blood / by William Stevens.

Date:
1832
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the healthy and diseased properties of the blood / by William Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    The case last referred to in Mr. Whitmore’s com- munication, is the patient on whom the saline treat- ment was first tried in the free hospital in Gre- ville-street; she has since been dismissed cured, and is now in better health than she had been previous to the attack. Soon after this case occurred, seven other pa- tients were admitted into the same hospital, six of them were from Blue-court, Saffron-hill, and one^ from Holborn ; two of the nurses who attended these patients were also attacked. These patients were attended by Mr. Whitmore, Mr. Marsden, and my- self : one man, who was brought to the hospital in the last stage of collapse, died soon after admission. We also lost one of the nurses, a very stout woman, who was attacked most violently, on the 31st of ]\Iay. She w^as put under the saline treatment, and on Monday, the 4th of June, was so far re- covered from the state of collapse as to be con- sidered out of danger. The same evening, about seven o’clock, she was attacked with a violent cramp in the stomach, which was probably followed by in- flammation and organic disease in that organ. After this the irritation was so great, that even cold water could not be retained, and she died on the evening of the 6th. After her death it was ascertained, that almost immediately before she had been attacked with the cramp in the stomach, she had eaten whole hh-^ ster (piobably a bad one), which had been brought in to her clandestinely by one of her companions.