Papers Relative to the Disease Called Cholera Spasmodica in India, Now Prevailing in the North of Europe..Winchester and Varnham, Strand., 1831 - 38 Seiten |
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Seite 28 - After the blue, cold period has lasted from twelve to twenty-four, seldom to forty-eight hours or upwards, the pulse and external heat begin gradually to return ; headache is complained of, with noise in the ears ; the tongue becomes more loaded, redder at the top and edges, and also dryer.
Seite 28 - High-coloured urine is passed with pain, and in small quantities ; the pupil is often dilated ; soreness is felt on pressure over the liver, stomach, and belly ; bleeding by the lancet or leeches is required ; ice to the head gives great relief. In short, the patient is now labouring under a continued fever, not to be distinguished from ordinary fever.
Seite 28 - A profuse, critical perspiration m;iy come on, from the second or third day, and leave the sufferer convalescent, but much more frequently the quickness of pulse and heat of skin continue ; the tongue becomes brown and parched ; the eyes are suffused and drowsy; there is a dull flush, with stupor and heaviness, about the countenance, much resembling typhus ; dark sordes collect about the lips and teeth; sometimes the patient is pale, squalid, and low, with the pulse and heat...
Seite 27 - The lips and cheeks sometimes puff out and flap in expiration, with white froth between them, as in apoplexy. If blood be obtained in this state, it is black, flows by drops, is thick, and feels to the finger colder than natural. Towards the close of this scene the respiration becomes very slow ; there is a quivering among the tendons of the wrist. The mind remains entire. The patient is first unable to swallow, then becomes insensible ; there never is, however, any rattle in the throat, and he dies...
Seite 9 - ... by success to warrant its express recommendation from authority. The Board have already published a detailed statement of the methods of treatment adopted in India, and of the different opinions entertained as to the use of bleeding, emetics, calomel, opium &c. There is reason to believe that more information on this subject may be obtained from those parts of the continent where the disease is now prevailing ; but even should it be otherwise, the greatest confidence may be reposed in the intelligence...
Seite 4 - To effect the prevention of the introduction of the disorder, the most active co-operation not only of the local authorities along the coast in the measures of the Government, but likewise the exercise of the utmost caution by all the inhabitants of such parts of the country becomes indispensably necessary. The quarantine regulations established by the Government are sufficient, it is confidently hoped, to prevent the disorder from being communicated through any intercourse with the Continent...
Seite 9 - The patient should always immediately be put to bed, wrapt up in hot blankets, and warmth should be sustained by other external applications, such as repeated frictions with flannels and camphorated spirits ; poultices of mustard, and linseed (equal parts) to the stomach, particularly where pain and vomiting exist ; similar poultices to the feet and legs to restore their warmth. The returning heat of the body may be promoted by bags containing hot salt or bran applied to different parts of it.
Seite 19 - ... we cannot form an opinion how it may or may not bear towards the side of contagion. In the last mentioned report, those gentlemen also state, that in the military general hospital, in which four hundred cholera patients had been admitted from distant quarters, up to the morning of the 13th, " one attendant had been attacked.
Seite 27 - ... in the attack. Frictions remove the blue colour for a time from the part rubbed, but in other parts, particularly the face, the livor becomes every moment more intense and more general. The lips and cheeks sometimes puff out and flap in expiration, with white froth between them, as in apoplexy.
Seite 28 - ... parched ; the eyes are suffused and drowsy ; there is a dull flush, with stupor and heaviness about the countenance, much resembling typhus ; dark sordes collect about the lips and teeth ; sometimes the patient is pale, squalid, and low, with the pulse and heat below natural ; but with the typhous stupor delirium supervenes, and death takes place from the fourth to...