The cholera spasmodica, as observed in Paris in 1832; comprising its symptoms, pathology, and treatment / [Ashbel Smith].

  • Smith, Ashbel, 1805-1886.
Date:
1832
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Credit: The cholera spasmodica, as observed in Paris in 1832; comprising its symptoms, pathology, and treatment / [Ashbel Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    April 23. Condition still favorable, except the recurrence of some diar- rhea this morning.—Injection with ten drops of laudanum ; lemonade. April 24. Convalescence appears to be commencing; the mouth is moist; injection of the eye and flushed face have disappeared.—Gum linctus. April 25, Convalescent.—Gum linctus; broth half a pint. April 27. lmproving.—T wo vermicelli soups. She gradually improved ; slowly returning to solid food, and was dismissed cured the eighthof May. In this case the vomiting, purging, and cramps yielded to the mixture, to opiate injections, and frictions. From the constipation that existed till convalescence was somewhat advanced, no ill effect was perceived. The return of the diarrhea for a short time was not critical, for it occurred three days after a decided amelioration. The urinary secretion, however, re- turned about the same time. The ice in this case was of great service; it refreshed the patient, and eventually overcame the cerebral affection, and the symptoms therefrom depending, though they returned with great perti- nacity and increased severity from the fourteenth tothe twenty-first. Itis very clear that the patient could not have sustained repeated loss of blood, necessary to subdue these symptoms. For it was found in other similar cases, that the affection of the brain, sordes of the mouth, &c. returned as well after being checked by bleeding as after the application of ice. In- deed, after venesection was pushed beyond a certain point, it aggravated instead of alleviating these affections. After the declaration of re-action to the period of convalescence, the pulse was generally full, soft, not fre- quent, but rather below the standard of health.