Clinical report on dropsies : with observations explanatory of their pathology and therapeutics ; with an appendix on the theory and treatment of organic disease in general / by Robert Venables.

  • Venables, Robert, M.D.
Date:
1824
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Credit: Clinical report on dropsies : with observations explanatory of their pathology and therapeutics ; with an appendix on the theory and treatment of organic disease in general / by Robert Venables. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    August 1st, The symptoms of fever have been reduced-, the dropsical swellings nearly as at first. Bowels confined, and what passes dark-coloured ; urine plentiful; pain in the back still urgent. R Pil. hyd. submuriatis comp. 3i. ft. pil xij. wquales ^-sumat} sing, noctibus. Repet. mistura. 6. Pyrexia; hard, small, frequent, wiry pulse ; temperature increased; bowels regular; urine natural in quantity, high-coloured ; dyspnoea very distressing ; great languor, and inability to mus- cular exertion ; countenance pale, sallow, with occasional livid flushes after exercise; abdomen much increased in size; ancles swollen, and pit slightly on pressure; pain in the back, with con- siderable leucorrhcea. Believes she caught cold. Mitt, sanguis ad ?vii> R Puh. digitalis gr. xij. confect. aromatici q.s. ut ft. pil. no. viij.—st. j. sing, noctibus. Admov. vesicator. sterno. if. The pyrexial symptoms reduced ; the urine free; slight expectoration, with cough ; dyspnoea much relieved; bowels free, but the evacuations are hard and discoloured. The swellings begin to subside. R Calomel, gr. x. pil. scill. comp. vij. pulv. digitalis gr. viij. M.* ft. pil. no. xij. * Dr Blackall objects to such combinations, as unphilo- sophical. The objection is not only well founckd but I believe squills and digitalis are never indicated at the same time.