On the medicinal properties of bebeerine / by Douglas Maclagan.
- Douglas Maclagan
- Date:
- [1845]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: On the medicinal properties of bebeerine / by Douglas Maclagan. 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.
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![fip.M. The fever returned at noon. There was more headach than during the previous paroxysms in the hot stage; his pulse was 100; face flushed; conjunctiva injected; perspiration commences; one not unnatural stool. Rept. pilulce h. s. ut heri. 16th. Fever terminated as before in copious perspiration; pulse 84; tongue coated with a white fur, moist; one stool. Three grains of sulphate of quinine were dissolved in an ounce of water, and given at the same hours as the bebeerine. 6 p. m. Took twenty-one grains of the quinine. There has been no return of fever ; weak, but has no particular uneasiness ; two na- tural stools. Nil. 17th. A good night; pulse 80; no symptom of fever. 18th. Convalescence ; regains his appetite ; bowels open. Four ounces of bread extra. 20tb. Continues well; has an excellent appetite ; bowels regular. Chicken diet. 23d. Half diet. 24th. Well. Discharged. Febris Inter. Tertiana.—Mrs Ann Dogherty, aged 28, five years resident in India; of spare habit. Admitted into hospital at 6 o’clock p. m. on the 10th May 1844 in the hot stage of a paroxysm of intermittent fever, which she states commenced with rigor about an hour before admission. She complains of severe headach, pain in the back and lower extremities, of thirst, nausea, and loss of ap- petite. Skin is hot and^Lry; pulse 106, full, but compressible ; tongue coated with a thick fur, but moist ; bowels confined. By her account had attacks of fever on the 6th and 8th. They commenced at 4 o’clock p. m. and continued for several hours. No cause for the seizure can be assigned. R Antim. Potassio-tart. gr. i.; Ipecac, rad. covtrit. 9i. M.fl. pulv. statim sumend. 1J> Calomelanos gr. v.; Pulv. Jalapce comp. P)i. M. fat pulv. post horas tres sumendus. 11th. Emetic brought on the sweating stage, she ejected a quan- tity of greenish fluid; purge has acted several times; headach, thirst, and debility are what she now complains of; skin cool; pulse 84, soft; tongue clean. ]J> Antimon. Potassio-tartrat. gr. i; Magnes. Sulph. §i; Aqua gviij. M.ft. mistura cujus sumat giss. ter in die. 12th. Had no fever yesterday ; feels week and giddy in the erect posture, but in other respects is well; bowels open. 6 p. m. Pa- roxysm returned at one o’clock, rigor followed by heat and sweat- ing, the latter commencing about half an hour ago. The attack was attended by severe headach and acceleration of the pulse, flush- ing of the face and urgent thirst; the headach remains. Has tak- en several doses of the saline mixture, which has produced both an emetic and purgative effect. Stools watery, but contain some healthy feculent matter. Temporibus admovr. hirud. xvj. 13th. Headach relieved by leeches; it is not complained of this morning ; is weak and scarcely able to stand from giddiness.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22376343_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
