The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French.

  • French, John George, 1804-1887.
Date:
1854
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Credit: The nature of cholera investigated : with a supplemental chapter on treatment; addressed to junior practitioners / by John George French. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    August 25.—9, a.m. Has had a return of the vomiting and purging with much greater violence, and is in a state of complete collapse. No pulse at the wrist. Hands and feet cold, hlue and corrugated. Features shrunk. Lips livid. Eyes sunk. Cramps. Vomiting and purging of rice water fluid. Urgent thirst. Sinapisms to the spine, and epigastrium. Hot water bottles to the feet. Cold water ad libitum. 11, a.m. Ketches violently, hut does not eject the water. 1, p.m. Pulse perceptible. Surface of body regaining some degree of heat. 2, p.m. Ketching still very distressing. Great anxiety of countenance. 8, p.m. Surface colder. Can bear more clothing. I^. Cataplasma Smapis scrobiculo cordis. 12, p.m. There is some slight increase of heat again. The lower extremities are cold, and the application of warm bottles is agreeable to the feelings of the patient. Eetching continues. Purging has ceased. The skin is dry, except occasionally upon the face. 26//*.—9, a.m. Ketching continued during the whole night. Stomach quieter this morning. Countenance im- proved. Pulse more perceptible. 1, p.m. Improving. Has passed a clay-coloured motion. 27//*.—Passed a very restless night. Complains of pains in all her limbs. Stool of darker colour. Urine voided freely. 28//*.—Better in every respect. 17.—Ellen Ellis, aged fifty, a pauper in St. James's Workhouse, admitted into the Cholera Hospital, 15th