Practical observations on the use of oxygen, or vital air, in the cure of diseases: to which are added, a few experiments on the vegetation of plants / By Daniel Hill.
- Hill, Daniel, M.D.
- Date:
- 1820
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the use of oxygen, or vital air, in the cure of diseases: to which are added, a few experiments on the vegetation of plants / By Daniel Hill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![t patient for six months, and becoming too ill and lame to walk, she obtained a letter of admission into the Hos¬ pital; during three months, no advance to cure being observed, she was again recommended to undergo am¬ putation ; this however she again refused, and soon after left the Hospital. On leaving the Hospital she placed herself under the care of a Surgeon in Charter House Square, and during four months attendance no improve¬ ment was observed, at which time this gentleman died; and in succession she was seen by several eminent Sur¬ geons in different parts of London, until the period she came under my care. At this time a thick, dense, and perfectly black substance surrounded the whole of the muscles of the leg, with intervening deep and painful ulcers, exuding a most offensive ichorous black dis¬ charge ; the whole of the leg was much contracted, and very hard to the touch, from the foot to the knee. The breast was also very painful and hard, and the general health in every respect in a most exhausted hectic state ; and she had little or no sleep but what was obtained by opiates. The natural state of the constitution was far from regular. From this malignant state of the sores, and the long continuance of the disease, with weakness and poverty combined, I had little expectation of a recovery. Under all these distressing circumstances 1 had re¬ course to the usual alterative method of <nVirm the oxygen air, and regularly observed the progress of its influence; and in the course of a week f found the pulse snore natural, the hectic symptoms much lessened, the sleep refreshing, and all the painful sensations in the leg veiy much lessened. The;] foe tor of the sores, and b;ack discharge beginning to change to a more healthy pus, but the hard, black, and thick substance surround- <)](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31885779_0110.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
