A treatise on the effects and properties of cold, with a sketch, historical and medical, of the Russian campaign / Translated by John Clendinning, with an appendix.

  • Beaupre, Moricheau.
Date:
1826
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Credit: A treatise on the effects and properties of cold, with a sketch, historical and medical, of the Russian campaign / Translated by John Clendinning, with an appendix. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of suffocation and pain. The functions of the alimen- tary tube throughout, and the menstrual flux, natural. Her nights usually bad. Her frame greatly .wasted. Curative remedies of great variety had failed, and pal- liative treatment only was now thought of. Dn Caspar prescribed Haller’s acid elixir. In the course of 1820, some blood was drawn, principally by a few leeches. Some other topics were used, as cloths wet with cold water, aromatic poultices, but they could not be borne. An issue was put in the arm towards 1821: alum whey was used for ten weeks. From any of the foregoing means but slight and transient relief. After this, cold affusion was determined on. A garden watering pot was employed. The first affusion brought on a pa- roxysm, but the pain was less than usual. After each shower-bath she w^as put to bed ; at length she came to bear six successive pails of ice-cold water without in- convenience. In August 1821, symptoms considerably relieved.—Prussic acid prescribed at her own request. Soon after an opiate ointment was applied to the chest by means af a hair pencil; and iron was prescribed in September. After fifty-seven shower-baths she was so far recovered as to be able to dispense with them. In October 182], she returned from Berlin, home to the country in good health. A recurrence of the former symptoms in 1822 was combated successfully by the cold affusion and prussic acid.* Page 284. Subsect. c. In Johnson’s Journal, vol. iv. is a striking instance of the perturbing power of cold affusion. In the Ame- rican Medical Register, vol. iii. are two interesting cases * I have no note of the source from which 1 have taken this. I think it is in Rust’s Magazine.