Practical remarks on some exhausting diseases, particularly those incident to women.

  • Eyre, James, Sir, 1734-1799.
Date:
1845
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical remarks on some exhausting diseases, particularly those incident to women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    food which had once disagreed. In six days this patient was so much relieved by j gr. doses of the oxyde administered thrice a-day, that to use her own words, since she had taken these powders she had felt herself quite another per- son. Dec. 2nd, the pain had entirely ceased, and she could eat mutton with impunity, which she had not ventured to do for months : the milk constipating, cocoa, or black tea, was sub- stituted; on Dec. 31st all medicine was left off, being unnecesary, and on the 24th of Jan. 1845, she reported herself perfectly well. More instances might have been given of the valuable qualities of our remedy in gastric de- rangement, hut fearful of tiring, by repetitions of similar favourable results, the writer pro- ceeds, in the second place, to detail how far he has found the oxyde useful in haemoptysis and haematemesis ; and in order that a due esti- mate may he formed of the comparative utility of the medicine, a few cases in which it wTas exhibited will be subjoined.