Cases of hydrophobia / by George Pinckard.

  • George Pinckard
Date:
1819
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cases of hydrophobia / by George Pinckard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    modic breathing, with a sense of suffocation, supervened. For supper he had some gruel, which he took with a spoon, but found great difficulty in swallowing it. He was no longer able to obtain his usual rest, but passed a most dis- turbed and sleepless night. On Monday (Jan. 25th) he rose at ten o’clock ; the pain and stiffness of the right arm and breast continued; and the spasmodic catchings of the breath and sense of strangu- lation were so violent as to prevent him from walking stea- dily, without support. Complaining that he was unable to clean his person, on account of the state of his arm, his mother took a basin of wrater and offered him her assist- ance ; but while she was washing his hands, she observed that he turned his head from her; and when she after- wards put a w'et cloth to his face he started away, and his breathing became spasmodic and suffocating. I was called to visit him between eleven and twelve o'clock at his father’s house, Battle Bridge. On my arrival I found him sitting in the parlour, in his usual dress, with scarcely any appearance of disease, except an occasional deep and anxious inspiration, nearly such as a person would take in preparing for a heavy sigh, but more rapid and hur- ried, and not followed by the same full and sudden expira- tion. This was repeated every eight or. ten minutes, the eyes being rather widely opened, and the countenance be- traying some expression of anxiety; but, during the in- tervals, he w'as tranquil and composed, conversed rationally, and appeared in all respects like a person in sound health. He related to me (himself) the above history of his attack, answering whatever questions were put to him distinctly, and in the most collected manner. Fourteen ounces of blood had been taken from the arm ; and some pills, composed of calomel, opium, and extract of edlocyntb, were administered by Mr. Henry Y\ akcfield5< ol
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