A dissertation on the institutes of medicine, particularly relating to the pathology of fever / By William Stoker.

  • Stoker, Gulielmus, 1773-1848
Date:
1826
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    compound infusion of mint, holding fifteen grains of alum to each ounce in solution, vital power was considerably restored, and the haemorrhage stopped in the course of the night; so that on our visit on the succeeding day we were able to resume the preparations of mercury, which had been previously in use, and to employ nutritive means, especially gravy in the form of enemata, so as to preserve and improve vital power. In a few days afterwards, however, aguish paroxysms commenced, which assumed the form of an irregular tertian. To the ague suc¬ ceeded hepatitis, and on hepatitis supervened dropsy of the right leg and thigh, that commenced suddenly with the symptoms of phlegmasia dolens. It is unnecessary to the objects for which this case is given, to detail the various means employed for these diseases, farther than that various preparations of Peruvian bark, given with the concurrence of Dr. Jackson, (in consulta- tion,) were beneficial in arresting the ague j and that mercury evidently evinced its usual efficacy in removing the supervening liver-disease and dropsy, and in restoring the patient to that perfect health which he has since enjoyed. The circumstance for which the case was referred to in the Section on Physiology, (at page 26,) was the remarkable cold¬ ness of the body, and particularly of the air expired inbreathing, connected with the haemorrhage from the bowels; exemplifica¬ tions of which will be further referred to when treating on Epidemic Fevers. No. II. CASE III. SPURIOUS PHTHISIS. [Referred to at page 100.] Mr. C-, 50 years of age, of athletic make, but gouty habit, and whose health, in the course of the preceding year, had been frequently interrupted by attacks of irregular
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