Sketches of the most prevalent diseases of India : comprising a treatise on the epidemic cholera of the East, statistical and topographical reports of the diseases in the different division of the army under the Madras presidency / by James Annesley.

  • Annesley, James, Sir, 1780-1847.
Date:
1829
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    The vessels of the pia mater in general were exceed- ingly turgid, and infinitely more dense than in a healthy state, uniting the hemispheres so firmly as to require some force to separate them, to expose the corpus callo- sum. Very little water was found in the lateral ventricles, and the choroid plexus, though very turgid, still retained its beautiful appearance. Some effusion was found in the cerebellic cavity and top of the spine, and a very great turgescence of the vessels surrounding the whole of the cerebellum, the pons varolii, the medulla oblongata, and all the nerves which rise there. CASE III. James D'Arcey, private H. M. 84th regiment, aged thirty-six years, was attacked in the tents on the south beach, about twelve o'clock at night, 27th May, 1819, with purging and vomiting, and pain in the belly and side. Dr. Walker, who was upon the spot, gave him the following draught: — R Tinct. Opii, Tinct. Valerianae, aa rt],!. Aquse puree M. ft. haustus. And in half an hour afterwards, the same quantity of tinct. opii, and ninety drops of tinct. Valerianae, were re- peated ; a vein was opened, but no blood would flow. At one o'clock, a.m. the patient took several drops more of tinct. opii, being in all 170 drops, and was sent to the general hospital, where he arrived at a quarter past two o'clock, on the 28th of May. Quarter past two o'clock.—R^s just now had one evacuation from his bowels, of a watery consistence, and