Remarks on the efficacy of matico, as a styptic and astringent. With additional cases, mode of exhibition, &c / [Thomas Jeffreys].

  • Jeffreys, Thomas, 1774?-1852.
Date:
1844
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Credit: Remarks on the efficacy of matico, as a styptic and astringent. With additional cases, mode of exhibition, &c / [Thomas Jeffreys]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which frequently discharged blood copiously, and could not be suppressed by pressure, owing to the pain it gave the patient. I applied the Maticoinleaf, so as in a great measure to suppress the bleeding; but the constitutional disease was too deeply seated. In bleeding gums, and leech bites in in¬ fants, sometimes very difficult to manage, I have no doubt it will be useful. “ The last case I used it in was one of excessive discharge of blood from the bowels, and I had every reason to think that the haemorrhage proceeded from a stricture or ulceration of the tranverse arch of the colon, or higher up in the intestine. The patient is greatly reduced by frequent and ex¬ cessive loss of blood, great pain and constipation of the bowels, with all the concomitant symptoms of it. The Matico has been given in infusion three times a-day, and there has been less haemorrhage since, than under any other remedy. This patient thinks the infusion an exceedingly pleasant tea. I have now expended my stock of the leaf, and would feel greatly obliged by another supply in an envelope, by post, for I think I should lose no time in continuing the use of it in this case. With many thanks for past attentions, “ I remain, dear Doctor, “ Yours, very sincerely, “November 16,1842. “ H. It, Oswald.” From the Same. “ My dear Sir,—I am most happy to be able to say, that the case of intestinal haemorrhage, in which the Matico was prescribed, continues to recover. This lady had been subject to discharges of blood from the bow¬ els for several years, and had been in Dublin for advice in 1841. Last summer the discharges had been so frequent and profuse, that at the beginning of November she was reduced to the last stage of debility, and had been confined to her bed for many weeks. Under these circumstances I prescribed the Matico, in addition to the use of the longest rectum bougie, and oleum olivce, as a mild laxative. The blood evidently came from above the descending colon, and was often preceded by scybala. Since the Matico has been administered, she has experienced no serious discharge of blood: she had one about ten days since, which she ascribed to the exertion of walking up stairs. “ This lady and her sister are so well pleased with the medicine, that they gave a part of it, about a month ago, to a young lad, who suffered from epistaxis iveehly ; and they informed me to-day, that the lad, after taking the Matico, had no bleeding at the nose for four weeks in succession, which he considered quite an event, and was only fearful lest the stoppage of blood might lead to some dangerous consequence I, however, advised them to repeat it. “ During the last fourteen days, I have been using it in the case of a plethoric young female, 17 years of age, who is subject to profuse catamenia, about every fortnight; and also to frequent bleeding, sometimes daily, at the nose, 1 gave it first in form of powder, combined with small doses of