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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    tarily; skin of extremities cold, and covered with a clammy sweat; eyes sunk, features collapsed; is very restless; breathing natural; senses perfect; no passage of urine. Habt. statim Calom. gr. xv. Opii gr. ij. R Mist. Camph. Drog. Aihari, aa ^ss. Sing, semihoris repetend. Habt. cyath. brandy, subinde. Bibat pro potu communi aquam cum succo eitrcrum. Fricentiir crura brachiaque linim. camphorss. Fifteen minutes past seven, p. m.—Vomited almost im- mediately after taking the pill. Spasm still violent; has great thirst; other symptoms the same. Four men are constantly employed in rubbing his extremities. The friction evidently reheves him. Rept, Bolus Calomel, et Opii. Calomel, gr. xv. Opii gr. ij. R Mist. Camph. jj. Tinct. Opii 3ij. iEther. Sulph. 31]. Sp. Ammon. 3j. M. ft. enema. Contin. alia. ■Thirty minutes past seven, p. m. — Did not retain the clyster; pulse quite imperceptible; other symptoms in- creased. Vomited shortly after taking the pill. A glass of brandy. Rept. Calomel, gr. xv. Opii gr. ij.