Lectures on clinical medicine, delivered in the Hospital Saint-Jacques, of Paris / by P. Jousset ; translated, with copious notes and additions, by R. Ludlam.

  • Pierre Jousset
Date:
1880
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Credit: Lectures on clinical medicine, delivered in the Hospital Saint-Jacques, of Paris / by P. Jousset ; translated, with copious notes and additions, by R. Ludlam. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TIIK MEDICAL CLINIC ture is ]02.2°, tlie pulse 92. The pleurisy is doing well, but, on a careful examination, the apices of both lungs are found to be the seat of a tuberculous infiltration, which is partly softened. Arsenicum, 12th dil., six globules in 200 grammes of water; one spoonful every three hours. January 30. The chills have ceased, but the fever at night still persists. The temperature is 103.10°, and the pulse 88. Morning, temp. 101.8°. The same treatment. January 31. No return of the chills. Evening, temp. 100.76°; morning, pulse 92, temp. 100.7°. The same treat- ment. February 2. The pulse and the temperature are normal, except about 2 o'clock p.m., when she has fever, but no chills. The same treatment. February 3. Fever at irregular intervals. Yesterday, at 5 P.M., the temperature was 104°, at 6 p.m., 103.25°. This morn- ing the temperature is 102.2° and the pulse 96. February 5. At 3 p.m., temp. 104° ; at 6 p.m. it was nor- mal. In spite of this fever, the effusion has completely disap- peared. Phosphorus, 30th dil., four globules in 125 grammes of water ; three spoonfuls a day. Phthisis and the Vegetable Diet. There is another patient with phthisis, in a private room, who is a young pharmacy student. He has, as you may have known from his symptoms, a large cavity in the apex of the right lung. I have put him on a vegetable diet, although I am not certain that he will be able to bear it, as he already complains of diarrhoea. Sometimes a diarrhoea is the conse- quence of this regimen, although its effects are usually of an opposite kind. I will speak to you on this subject hereafter. Incipient Phthisis. I wish now to speak to you of a young man who is ill of a suspected bronchitis, and who, by the use of hryo7ii(i and a vegetable diet, has left the hospital entirely cured. Cj^f,y^ Y._Morquet, seventeen years of age, a wood-turner,
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