A Practical Treatise on the Efficacy of Bloodletting, in the Epidemic Fever of Edinburgh: Illustrated by Numerous Cases and Tables Extracted from the Journals of the Queensberry-House Fever Hospital |
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... cured , and who died each month , with the proportion of deaths 141 142 to recoveries , 142 TABLE , NO . XXII . Giving a tabular view of the symptoms and treat- ment of 34 cases which terminated fatally , 143 Tables of the diets used in ...
... cured , and who died each month , with the proportion of deaths 141 142 to recoveries , 142 TABLE , NO . XXII . Giving a tabular view of the symptoms and treat- ment of 34 cases which terminated fatally , 143 Tables of the diets used in ...
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... a base sufficiently ample whereon to found his new divi- sion . The author just quoted remarks , that dis- eases are not cured by eloquence , but by reme- • • dies ; yet it is to be lamented , that PRESENT EPIDEMIC FEVER . 39.
... a base sufficiently ample whereon to found his new divi- sion . The author just quoted remarks , that dis- eases are not cured by eloquence , but by reme- • • dies ; yet it is to be lamented , that PRESENT EPIDEMIC FEVER . 39.
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... cured in this hospital , or at the Royal Infirmary , but had re- lapsed , either by leaving the hospital too soon , which they not unfrequently do , decidedly against the injunctions of the physicians , or by making too free with ...
... cured in this hospital , or at the Royal Infirmary , but had re- lapsed , either by leaving the hospital too soon , which they not unfrequently do , decidedly against the injunctions of the physicians , or by making too free with ...
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... cured from , or who have died at this hospi- tal , since it was opened on the 23d February 1818 , up to the 1st January of the present year . These Tables I meant to have published at length ; but as they would have been both expensive ...
... cured from , or who have died at this hospi- tal , since it was opened on the 23d February 1818 , up to the 1st January of the present year . These Tables I meant to have published at length ; but as they would have been both expensive ...
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... during the last year , bore nearly the same proportion as to males and females : For of 825 dismissed cured , or who died , 352 were males , and 473 females . der 10 years of age ; 199 from 10 to 56 REVIEW OF THE TABLES .
... during the last year , bore nearly the same proportion as to males and females : For of 825 dismissed cured , or who died , 352 were males , and 473 females . der 10 years of age ; 199 from 10 to 56 REVIEW OF THE TABLES .
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4th day alvine evacuations appetite bad Aquæ avenæ pro potu bad night bled bleeding bloodletting bowels regular brachio sanguinis Chble clean and moist Cloudy Common diet Complains of headach Continuentur alia Continuentur medicamenta Continuetur decoctum avenæ convalescent costive countenance Cras mane cured day of fever debility delirium disease Ditto e brachio sanguinis Emittantur e brachio epigastrium ex aqua eyes suffused face flushed fæces full and firm gone Habeat sulphatis magnesiæ headach heat hot and dry hypochondrium Imponatur vesicatorium infusi sennæ jalapæ leeches natural nausea Omittantur medicamenta oppressed pain of abdomen pain of back pain of loins patients pilulas aloeticas prout ferat Pulse relapse remedies respiration rigours sharp skin hot sleeps ill soft soreness subinde subsultus symptoms three stools throbbing of temples tinnitus tinnitus aurium tongue clean tongue foul tongue moist tongue parched tongue pretty clean tongue white typhus urine urine free venesection vertigo vomiting white but moist
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Page 108 - Such, however, is, at the same time, the nature of the animal economy, that this debility proves an indirect stimulus to the sanguiferous system ; whence, by the intervention of the cold stage and spasm connected with it, the action of the heart and larger arteries is increased, and continues so till it has had the effect of restoring the energy of the brain, of extending this energy to the extreme vessels, of restoring, therefore, their action, and thereby especially overcoming the spasm affecting...
Page 93 - I ordered the Surgeons to bleed them in both Arms, and to go round to them all, with Command to leave them bleeding till all were blooded, and then come and tie them up in their Turns. Thus they lay bleeding and fainting, so long, that I could not conceive they could lose less than an hundred Ounces each man.
Page 93 - We had on board Oil and Spirit of Vitriol sufficient, which I caused to be mixed with Water to the Acidity of a Lemon, and made them drink very freely of it; so that notwithstanding we had one hundred and eighty odd down in this most fatal Distemper, yet we lost no more than seven or eight; and even these owed their Deaths to the strong Liquors which their MessMates procured for them.
Page 80 - ... to measure the blood, which falling on the ground, the quantity each person lost could not, of course, be known. The operation being over, he ordered them to lie in their tents ; and though he gave no kind of remedy after bleeding, yet of the numbers that were thus treated, not a single person...
Page 168 - ... but because they desire to give every body an ill opinion of it. Or, suppose they do not do it from wickedness, they cannot be excused from ignorance and perverseness, — both which are, doubtless, pernicious, but the former much more so." And again, "one hundred thousand men perish from the want of bloodletting, or from its not being timely employed, where one perishes from excessive bleeding, when prescribed by a physician.
Page 35 - February 23, 1818, my friends, Messrs. Stephenson and Christison, the matron, two apothecaries in succession, the shop-boy, washer-woman and thirty-eight nurses, have been infected; four of the nurses have died. With the exception of two or three nurses, who have been but a short time in the hospital, I am now the only person in this house who has not caught the disease within the last eight or ten months.
Page 111 - blood-letting one of the most powerful means of diminishing the activity of the whole body, especially of the sanguiniferous system, and the most effectual means of moderating the violence of reaction in fevers.
Page 108 - Dr. Mason Good is of the same opinion, and speaks of fever as " characterized by debility of the living fibre." These views have been extensively assailed, both by the pen and by the lancet, by those from whose special experience we naturally should have expected the soundest views and the...
Page 35 - Infirmary, in the course of four months, my three colleagues, two of the young men in the apothecary shop, two housemaids, and thirteen or fourteen nurses, caught the disease, and the matron and one of the dressers died of it. Since I left the infirmary, three more of the gentlemen acting as clerks, one of the young men in the shop, and many more of the nurses, have caught the infection, but the number I do not know. In this hospital (Queensberry House), since it was opened on the 23d February, 1818,...
Page 92 - Drawboard over them; so that it is no wonder we receiv'd the infection. In a very few Days after we got on board one of the Surgeons came to me to acquaint me that several of my Men were taken after a violent Manner, with that Languor of Spirits that they were not able to move. I immediately went among them, and, to my great Surprise, soon discerned what was the Matter. In less than Forty-eight Hours we had in our several Ships one hundred and eighty Men in this miserable Condition. I ORDER'D the...