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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    headache, and he took his food well all the time. The rib gave him more trouble than all the rest, owing to respiratory movements. Any pain he had was confined to bruised and strained muscles, those in the cervical region under the occiput particularly, and only then when he attempted to move them. The wound healed absolutely in seven days by first intention, and its edges, ragged as they were, coapted as accurately as the most carefully closed incision made by a surgeon’s knife. The wound had been dressed with alembroth gauze, after being washed out with a mixture of boiled and unboiled water, without other antiseptics of any kind. When he got up on the ninth day the only symptom of concussion left was a slight giddiness on quickly moving his head. In this case the prompt administration of the large dose of serum by its restorative action on the vaso-motor system quickly raised the tone of the bloodvessels, and by so doing removed the symptoms of shock, the oedema, and the ecchy- mosis, and also in great part, if not altogether, the concussion. The same action removed the pain, and insured the rapid healing of the wound which followed. The action on shock is very marked, and in two other cases of traumatism which were treated in emergency the same unmistakable results were obtained. The patients wanted badly to know what the stuff was which so rapidly took the faintness out of them. In an extreme case 3 drachms might be given at once, and repeated as required, but in those treated so far the initial 3-drachm dose, followed by 1 drachm every four hours, have been sufficient.
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