A contribution to the haematinic properties of dialized iron : being extracts from communications read before the Boston Society of the Medical Sciences and the Boston Society for Medical Observation / by Robert Amory.

  • Amory, Robert, 1842-1910.
Date:
1879
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Credit: A contribution to the haematinic properties of dialized iron : being extracts from communications read before the Boston Society of the Medical Sciences and the Boston Society for Medical Observation / by Robert Amory. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    L)r. Wm, B. Hazard, editor of the St. Louis Clinical Record, in an editorial note to an article on Dialysed Iron, published in the Cincinnati Lancet and Clinic, Oct. 26, writes as follows: f Editor’s Note on Dialysed Iron in Arsenical Poisoning. “ During the first week in September, 1878, the writer was called to see a case of poisoning by arsenious acid. The patient was a young man, aged about twenty-five years, who had ingested a large quantity of the poison that had been used by mistake in the place of baking powder, in the composition of griddle cakes. The poison had been taken at about eight o’clock A. M. lie had been seen shortly afterwards by a most competent physician, who had given him several ounces of the hydrated sesqui- oxide of iron. Vomiting had persisted all day, and, when seen by the writer at five and a half o'clock P. M., he was still nauseated, and ejected the smallest quantities of liquids almost as soon as taken. He had discontinued the hydrated sesquioxide about an hour before. There was extreme tenderness over the epigastrium, and constant desire to drink. The writer immediately commenced the administration of Wyeth’s Dialysed Iron in drachm doses, given with a tablespoonful of ice-water. He vomited only two or three times after this treatment was instituted. At about seven o’clock, he was given a mixture of subnitrate of bismuth and aqueous extract of opium, to lessen the pain and irritability of the stomach. As soon as it could be retained, sulphate of magnesia was given in small doses, until the bowels were moved freely. The patient was intensely jaundiced next day, and some irritability of the stomach persisted for two or three days. His recovery was satisfactory. The Southern Clinic, of January, 1879, contains the following account of two cases of arsenical poisoning treated with Dialysed Iron, by O. A. Crenshaw, M. D., Richmond, Va. : Driving up Second Street at 11 A. M., December 22, I met a man hastily in search of a doctor. He stated that his two children had been poisoned, half an hour pre- viously, by ratsbane. I hastened to the house, a couple of blocks off, and found a girl nine years of age sitting over a basin, into which she had vomited a large quantity of undigested bread, in lumps, and a considerable quantity of a yellowish liquid. The other sister, aged eleven, had not been sickened. I immediately gave the younger girl a mustard emetic, which acted instantaneously, and dispatched her father to the nearest drug store for some Dialysed Iron. He returned in a few minutes, and I gave her one teaspoonful in half a glass of water, with directions that it should he repeated every half hour. Also ordered the elder girl to be vomited, and treated as the other, with Dialysed Iron. Saw the patients again at 2 P. M., and learned that the eldest girl had com- menced vomiting before the emetic could be administered. It was given, however, and both kept on the iron treatment. Both had vomited occasionally, during my absence, and the younger, who was said to have eaten most heartily of the bread, was suffering with fever, restlessness, thirst and burning heat in the region of the stomach. The elder suffered comparatively little, and was free of fever. Ordered the iron con- tinued every half hour, as before, and the free use of milk. At 8 P. M , saw the patients again—the elder girl entirely relieved; the younger still suffering with fever, thirst and great restlessness. Treatment continued.