14th. Feels stronger; pulse 108, of good strength; occasional muscular
tremor. Pt.
18th. Continues steadily to improve. Pt. Jus. Bov. lbj. in dies. Vini
Albi, ℥vj.
23d. Convalescent. Omit. Med. Inf. Cascaril. c. Senna, bis.
33d. Free from complaint. Dismissed cured.
In this case bleeding was carried to the utmost extent to which it could
be carried with safety, and rather beyond it; but it was one of those
cases in which less was to be apprehended from the bleeding than from
the disease.
CASE CXIV.
FRANCES JACOB, æt. 17, destitute. Four days ago seized with nausea,
vomiting, headache, and other febrile symptoms. At present, much pain of
epigastrium, which is extremely tender on pressure; throat sore;
deglutition very painful; much vertigo; scarcely any headache; no sleep;
mind confused through the night; some pain of chest on full inspiration;
cough, with viscid copious sputa; very considerable dyspnœa; aspect of
countenance leaden-coloured and oppressed; skin warm, of a dusky,
unhealthy red colour; tongue very red, not much loaded; bowels
constipated; pulse 135, tremulous and indistinct. Abradat. Capillitium.
Hirud. viij. faucibus externis. Postea Empl. Emoll. Empl. Lyttæ nuchæ.
Inhal. Vap. Aq. Calid. Garg. c. Borat Sodæ. Ol. Ricini ʒiij. q. p. Pulv.
Aper. Mit. h. s.
5th. No pain of head; no sleep; mind confused; much low talkative
delirium; still uneasiness of chest on full inspiration; throat less
painful; deglutition more easy; dyspnœa and cough the same; abdomen
tender; tongue unchanged; four stools; pulse 120, feeble and indistinct;
skin covered universally with very unhealthy red, dusky efflorescence.
Pulv. Aper. Mit. h. s. Mist. Camphor, ℥iss. c. Tt. Hyosciami, ʒj. et
Ammon. Carbon, gr. x. 4ta. q. h. Vini Albi, ℥vi. in dies.
6th. Much delirium; some sleep; skin of same colour; rather more
sensible to-day; says she has no pain of head, but sense of severe
soreness all over her; much cough; four stools; pulse 120, weak. Pt.
Med. et Vin.
7th. Slept well; less delirium; “feels much better;” countenance greatly
improved; skin more warm; colour much more natural; throat still
painful; deglutition difficult; some tenderness of the epigastrium on
full pressure; scarcely any over the abdomen; tongue red at edges, brown
and dry in middle; much thirst; three stools; pulse 108, soft, not very
weak; lips and mouth surrounded with an herpetic eruption; skin not
abraded, but covered with soft scab. Pt. Med. omnia.
8th. Slept well; asleep at present; no delirium pulse 108, soft.
9th. Still more improved; pulse 96, soft.
13th. Pulse 87; other symptoms the same. Pt.
14th. Complains more of pain of epigastrium, which is considerably
tender on pressure; other symptoms the same. Catap. Sinap. epigast. Pt.
alia.
15th. Epigastrium much relieved; other symptoms the same. Pt.
18th. Convalescent.
24th. Dismissed cured.
CASE CXV.
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