An essay on the use of narcotics and other remedial agents calculated to produce sleep in the treatment of insanity / Joseph Williams.

  • Williams, Joseph, 1814-1882
Date:
1845
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Credit: An essay on the use of narcotics and other remedial agents calculated to produce sleep in the treatment of insanity / Joseph Williams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    greater the danger. Taking an average of mani- acal cases, the pulse will he ahoiit 100; often ranging as high as 140, and but seldom descending lower than 90. Disease of the heart is by no means uncommon, as noticed by numerous authorities, and more recently by M. Foville. No one was more anxious than the late Dr. Aber- crombie to point out the impropriety of depleting in many affections of the brain, even where there is wildness, excitement, and incoherency, with great restlessness ; the pulse must be the guide, wuth the antecedent circumstances and condition, and very possibly tonics and stimulants will be the most proper treatment. Where the countenance was ex- sanguined, and the pulse small and rapid, with ex- haustion, then Abercrombie always gave stimulants. Dr. Gooch, in speaking of a puerperal maniac, who had no sleep, says, her pulse was soft [soft] and never very quick, and her face pale; never- theless, from fear of congestion in the brain, her head was shaved, and ten ounces of blood were extracted from the scalp by cupping glasses, without diminish- ing in the slightest her violence and incoherence.
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