A treatise on fever : with observations on the practice adopted for its cure, in the Fever Hospital and House of Recovery, in Dublin : illustrated by cases / by William Stoker.

  • Stoker, Gulielmus, 1773-1848
Date:
1815
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Credit: A treatise on fever : with observations on the practice adopted for its cure, in the Fever Hospital and House of Recovery, in Dublin : illustrated by cases / by William Stoker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    returned to-day; four stools; other symptoms as yesterday. Omit the bolus; repeat the rest as yesterday. A blister to the pained part of the side. L. April the IQth.—Pain of the side relieved by the bleeding-; other symptoms unaltered; belly costive. A draught with castor oil immediately, and an enema in the evening-. Omit the bleeding; repeat the rest. L. April the 11th.—Continues as yesterday. April the 18th.—-The pain has changed lower down in the side ; other symptoms as before. A blister to the pained part of the side; continue the rest. L. dpril the 19th.—Cough and difficulty of breath- ing continue ; pulse 80; three scanty stools. Continue her remedies. L. April the 2Qih.—Continue. April the 2]st.—Convalescent. She recovered slowly; the cough being obsti- nate, and was dismissed on the 18th day from the attack.