An introduction to hospital practice, in various complaints : with remarks on their pathology and treatment / by C.J.B. Aldis.

  • Charles James Berridge Aldis
Date:
1838
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    li. Hyd. c. Greta gr. iv. hac et crast. nocte, Olei Ricini 3ij. o. m. H. Anod. o. n. 26th.—Says that he has no pain; sleeps quietly and well. Has still some tenderness of right ilium, and some tension of abdo- minal parietes. Pulse 96, soft; skin warm; tongue much cleaner, but dry on the surface, moist at the edges. Bowels open four times in the last twenty-four hours, motions of a light yellow bilious colour, fetid; urine free. Sumat pulv. alt. nocte, Oleum alt. diebus. Rep. Haust. nocturn. Vini pauxillum, si frigescat cutis. 30th.—Takes about four table spoonfuls of wine in twenty-four hours, when he is cold. Going on well. Diasta lactea. He continued to improve under the exhibition of occasional doses of aperients with wine, and on January the 8th was reported cured. Fever, with Congestion in the Head and Tenderness of Abdomen, cured. CASE III.—D. M., aet. 30? admitted under Dr. Seymour, January 19, 1832, was attacked a fortnight since with pain in the head, followed by shivering and heat of skin. At present the tongue is much loaded; there is still pain in the head ; abdomen tender, especially in the right iliac region; bowels not open. R. Hydrarg. Submur. Pulv. Jacobi veri aa. gr. iij. Opii gr. ss. bora somni, Olei Ricini fss. eras mane. 19th.—Rep. Olei Ricini 3ss. statim, Abradatur capillities, Lavetur caput Aqua frigida c. Aceto. Rep. Pulv. hac nocte et haust. eras mane, Haust. Salinus Effervescens quartis horis. 2\st.—Pulse 78, not strong; skin cool; tongue white; some pain in the head; bowels open. Applic. Hirud. x. pone aures, R. Hydrarg. c. Creta, Pulv. Ipecac, c. Opio aa. gr. v. mane et vesperc, Haust. Effcrves. ter die. ‘d'dnd.—Has vomited much dark-coloured mucus; pulse 64;