A contribution to the haematinic properties of dialized iron : being extracts from communications read before the Boston Society of the Medical Sciences and the Boston Society for Medical Observation / by Robert Amory.

  • Robert Amory
Date:
1879
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Credit: A contribution to the haematinic properties of dialized iron : being extracts from communications read before the Boston Society of the Medical Sciences and the Boston Society for Medical Observation / by Robert Amory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Lee. 23.—Visited patients at 10 A. M. Found that the elder girl had gone to school, and the younger up, and entirely free from all symptoms of poisoning, with an appetite for breakfast. The rapidity of recovery, in these cases, speaks volumes in favor of Dialysed Iron in the treatment of arsenical poisoning. The quantity of arsenic incorporated with the bread, which these children had baked and eaten, was one teaspoonful, and though it is true that much of the bread was vomited undigested, yet, from the quantity of the yellowish liquid vomited along with the bread, and the severity of the symptoms, a considerable quantity of the arsenic must have come in contact with the mucous mem- brane of the stomach. I was induced to use the Dialysed Iron because of the facility with which it could be procured—not more than five minutes elapsing between the writing of the prescrip- tion and the administration of the first dose. In the treatment of such cases, time is everything, and that lost in preparing the ordinary antidote, might have cost the life of one or both these patients. That Dialysed Iron, in addition to its other virtues, is an antidote for arsenical poisoning, I have no doubt. [It gives us great pleasure to add, that we have just learned from Dr. Crenshaw that the Dialysed Iron used in these cases was prepared by Messrs. John Wyeth & Bro., of Philadelphia.—Ed.] Dialysed Iron as an Antidote to Arsenic. Editor Medical and Surgical Reporter:—An elderly gentleman and his wife were poisoned, last week, by arsonious acid put in their coffee, from which they suffered very severely. Mr. C. drank a cup of the coffee, and also a glass of sweet milk, at the table, and immediately after rising from the table he drank two more glasses of milk, with cream, not apprehending prison. In less than thirty minutes he became sick, nauseated and threw up his dinner. Supposing he was bilious, or had eaten something indigestible, he took a dose of calcined magnesia, and soon threw that up; then drank a solution of sodse carb., which was likewise thrown up. Mrs. C. was also seized with nausea and vomiting, when a physician was called in, who treated the nausea and irritability of the stomach, not apprehending p>oison, for the lady was not well before taking the poison. Mr. C. did not suffer many hours, as he had unwittingly taken three very good remedies. Mrs. C. was extremely prostrated; she is about sixty years old, and in poor health generally. The poison was taken on Monday at noon, and she continued to vomit and suffer till Thursday, when I sent her, in the evening, two ounces of Dialysed Iron, prepared by Wyeth, of which she took nearly a fluid drachm, and experienced great relief in a few moments. She repeated the dose before bedtime, and rested better than she had since Sunday night. I saw her on Friday, when she was able to sit up, and expressed her thanks for the medicine and the prompt relief if gave her, for she vomited no more after the first dose She continued to use the iron till restored to health. JYavasota, Texas. A. It. KILPATRICK, M. D. A Case of Arsenical Poisoning Treated with Dialysed Iron. I^send you the history of a case of arsenical poisoning, which occurred in this City, thinking it may interest some of the readers of your valuable journal: On the 22d day of March last, I was summoned to visit Mrs. J. A. McK fa married woman, about twenty-four years of age,) who. the messenger said, had taken arsenic, with su;cidal intent, and I immediately repaired to her dwelling. She was
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