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

  • Paton, D. Montgomerie.
Date:
1906
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    severe cough present, there being no nausea. The pain dis- appeared from the first week. He took a chill, and the serum ceased to help him. Since he has recovered it has again been given, and he is once more improving. (267) I. McM., an advanced case of laryngeal phthisis. When seen he had been confined to bed for weeks, the throat was very painful, and swallowing, even liquids, difficult; appetite was poor, and patient debilitated. Under plasma he rapidly improved, lost all his throat pain, gained a normal appetite, and was able to swallow freely and without pain. When he seemed on the highroad to recovery and was up and going about, he caught a chill, which immediately inhibited the whole reaction; and the chill, affecting his throat, reduced him again to his original condition. Treatment has not yet been resumed. (268) T. O’H. : phthisis, nine months. Consolidation in both lungs, rales in left, sweats, loss of weight and appetite ; dyspnoea a prominent symptom. Plasma from September 18, 1905, to October 31. Results: No sweating for the last three weeks, cough and sputum a little less ; breathing much easier, and can now go upstairs freely—quite impossible before. Appetite good, and a general feeling of betterment. Weight increased 3 pounds. Urine raised from 54 ounces to 80 ounces. Respiration reduced from 24 to 20. Temperature normal and unaffected. Right lung, R.M., a little clearer at base and behind; left some rales, but has lost pleuritic friction. (269) I. S., aged twenty-one: nine months’ acute phthisis. Rales in both lungs; temperature ioi° to 102'; heavy sweats; probably mixed infection. Had plasma for three weeks, but, except for restoration of appetite and a sense of well-being, no other improvement was obtained. She then left the hospital of her own accord. After thoroughly testing the plasmata on tubercular cases in my own practice, I asked Dr. Stoney, of the Consumptive
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