Letters concerning the internal dropsy of the brain : to Charles William Quin, M.D. ... from William Patterson, M.D. ...

Date:
1794
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    [ 8; ] could not be prevailed upon to fwallow the Calomel in the morning, and, as the mouth appeared affedled, it was omitted in the evening—friftion and ftibiated opium continued—takes lemonade, and gruel fla- voured with wine. 16th—About eleven o’clock lafl night fhe became much worfe, and could fcarcely fpeak or fwallow. At eleven o’clock this morning, her pulfe unequal and ebbing—tofles her limbs greatly—keeps her left elbow rigidly bent—no other ipafmodick affection as yet—refpiration feeble and difficult-r—finking fall— and about two o’clock in the morning of the 17th, fhe died. Some hours before death, fhe voided a confidera- ble quantity of urine, and of dark coloured, but not foetid, excrement. During the finking period of the malady, fhe had almoft conftant toffing and writhing of the extremities, but no tonick or clonick convulfive flate, if we except the rigidity of the, left elbow, which frequently occurred, and continued for a certain fpace of time. The account which I received of her fituation pre- vious to my vifit was. That flie had for fixteen days a feverifh illnefs, fuppofed owing to w’orms, until two days before I faw her, when the difeafe affumed different and alarming features. At the beginning fhe loft: her appetite, vomited often, was frequently thirfty, complained of pain in the head and between the