A course of lectures on hydrophobia : its history, pathology, and treatment / compiled from manuscript notes of the late Dr. T.S. Holland ; delivered in the theatre of the North Charitable Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital by T.C. Shinkwin.

  • Holland, Thomas S.
Date:
[1865]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A course of lectures on hydrophobia : its history, pathology, and treatment / compiled from manuscript notes of the late Dr. T.S. Holland ; delivered in the theatre of the North Charitable Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital by T.C. Shinkwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

    57/68 page 57
    ITS mSTOUY, I'ATUOLOliY, AND TUKATMKNT. Liiryngolomy, iMusic, Pressure ou the Carotids, Trache- otomy This operation was proposed so far back as 1626, and was again spoken of by Marshall Hall. Had I a case again under my care, either that or transfusion would be my plan of treatment. Having notieed, as completely as our researches and time admit, the dilTcrcnt kinds of treatment which may and have been multiplied almost indclinitely, by combining one with the other, it only remains for us to glance atsucii agents and compounds as could Jiot be included under any of the headings enumerated. For this purpose we shall cnumenite the most remarkable siipi)o.sed to be specifics, as a complete description of them would extend this lecture ht;yond reasonable limits. One of the, most remarkable w.-xs the Ormskirk remedy—so c,alled from the name of a family in Lancashire, among whom it was long kept as a secret—it was of the following composition :—Ijl Pul- veris Cretaj §ss., Ifoli Armena; Aluminis grs. x. Pulvcris Emulm Campame Clci Anisi gutta; v., M., This is according to the deseription given by Heysliam, ami long afterwards by Parry, who gives examples of its liiiving failed to cure the disease. It is also recommended by Haumer. 'J’he powder of Toiujuin, or of George Cobb, coiisi.sted of sixteen grains of musk, with twenty grains of cinnabar, to be given every four hours, or even every hour if the <lisease was far advanced. The powder of Palmarus is one, if not the most ancient, of these compounds, and was formed of the leaves of luc, verain, sag'-, 2)lantain, polypody, wormwood, mint balm, mint betony, hypcricum, and lesser centaury, of each a handful, beaten into powder and nii.Tcd, and a drachm of
    digitised image 1
    digitised image 2
    digitised image 3