New serum-therapy / [D. Montgomerie Paton].

  • Paton, D. Montgomerie.
Date:
1906
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Credit: New serum-therapy / [D. Montgomerie Paton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    September 5.—Pain all gone, and patient dismissed with an elastic knee-cap. She has done well and has had no relapse. The next case was evidently septic, but seen in time. (240) Mrs. D., aged fifty-six (February 18, 1902), had run a needle into her right knee a few days before. The needle was removed, but the knee gradually became more painful, until it kept her awake at night, and she was then seen. There was no fluid in the joint, but sharp pain on the lower patellar margin and adjacent synovial membranes. Antidiphtheritic serum—1 drachm three times a day—and rest in bed. Februajy 19.—Slept soundly last night, and reported that the joint began to improve after the first dose, and that she could soon move it freely in bed without pain. The synovial membrane was free from pain, and the bone tenderness was much less. February 20.—Bone pain gone, but she is now threatened with bursitis. Febmary 22.—Bursitis almost well. February 24.—Quite well \ no pain ; dismissed. In all these cases no other treatment was given, either internal or external. General Traumata. (241) Mr. T., aged thirty-seven. In jumping a fence his horse fell and rolled on him. He was badly crushed all down the left side and leg, and his ilium was fractured, without displace- ment, while his clavicle was dislocated forwards at the sterno- clavicular joint. Put to bed and antidiphtheritic serum every eight hours. All pain except on movement was relieved from the very first, and that on movement lessened day by day, until on the fourth day he could move his limbs freely without pain. CEdema was largely prevented, and what there was had gone
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