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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Credit: 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. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    GO CASE VI. John Belsh, private H.M. 13th Light Dragoons.*— Received into the general hospital on the 19th of June, 1819, at seven o'clock in the morning. It appears that he had been attacked about six o'clock the preceding evening, and had been very ill in the barracks during the whole night. Cramps in his legs, arms, and stomach, were very- severe ; pupils of the eyes much dilated; countenance ghastly, and expressive of great general uneasiness; pulse labouring and fluttering; skin cold, and covered with a profuse, cold, clammy dew; eyes very much sunk in their orbits, and di-awn up, shewing only the white part. A vein was opened immediately, and the blood, which dribbled down the arm in thick sizy drops, was as black as ink. The opening in the vein was tolerably large, and more blood was abstracted in this advanced stage of the disease than I have before seen, though the depletion was not attended with the advantage I have sometimes witnessed. He complains of excessive pain, and of a burning sen- sation at the umbilicus ; pulse intermitting every third stroke, and exceedingly languid and hurried. Let him take the following draught immediately, and apply twenty leeches to the umbilicus : — R Tinct. Opii, Sp. iEther. Vit. aa 3]. Mist. Camph. ^jss. M. ft. haust. * The 13tli Dragoons had not landed at Madras many days before they were attacked with cholera.