Researches on primary pathology, and the origin and laws of epidemics v. 1, Volume 1The author, 1858 |
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Page 105 - Hundreds of poor people, men, women, and children, of all ages, from the drivelling idiot of ninety to the babe just born, huddled together without light, without air, wallowing in filth and breathing a fetid atmosphere, sick in body, dispirited in heart, the...
Page vi - Ptolemy on the same subject), and will build of them a tabernacle to my God. If you pardon me, I rejoice ; if you reproach me, I can endure it ; the die is thrown. I write a book to be read ; whether by the present or future agva, it matters not. It can wait for a reader a century, if God himself waited six thousand years for an observer of his works...
Page 148 - ... or from the administration of medicine, the exhaustion which ensues is apt to lead to a very different train of symptoms. The countenance becomes pale, and the cheeks cool or cold ; the eye-lids are half closed, the eyes are unfixed, and unattracted by any object placed before them, the pupils unmoved on the approach of light ; the breathing, from being quick, becomes irregular and affected by sighs ; the voice becomes husky, and there is sometimes a husky...
Page 181 - There are very frequently urgent restlessness, tossing about and jactitation. In some cases various spasmodic affections have occurred. " The seats of pain are usually the head, the side, the illiac region, the loins, the uterus, and the abdomen generally. The pain of the illiac region and of the abdomen are often attended with much tenderness.
Page 205 - But most reliance ought, so far as I am able to judge, to be placed on small and very long-continued doses of arsenic, as two drops of Fowler's solution, or a pill containing the sixtieth of a grain of arsenite of potass, taken three or four times a-day, [a potash salt but a very bad one].
Page 150 - ... leeches to be doubled. Six, therefore, were applied; they bled copiously; but when the medical attendants assembled in the evening they found the aspect of the case totally altered, and that for the worse; the child was deadly pale, it had scarcely any pulse, its skin was cold, the pupils were dilated and motionless when light was allowed to fall on them, and when a watch was held to its eyes it seemed not to see; there was no squinting. Did this state of vision depend on the pressure of a fluid...
Page 152 - We directed the gruel diet to be left off, and no other to be given than ass's milk, of which the child was to take, at least a pint and a half, and at most a quart in the twenty-four hours. Its medicine was ten minims of the aromatic spirit of ammonia in a small draught every four hours. When we met the next day the appearance of the child proved that our measures had been right; the nurse was walking about the nursery with it upright in her arms. It looked happy and laughing; the same plan was...
Page 148 - This affection," says he, in his admirable essay on the subject,1 " may be divided into two stages : the first, that of irritability ; the second, that of torpor. In the former there appears to be a feeble attempt at reaction ; in the latter, the powers appear to be more prostrate.
Page 181 - The HEART is, in different cases, affected with palpitation, fluttering, irregular and feeble action; there are beating and throbbing of the carotids, and sometimes even of the abdominal aorta ; great rapidity, and sometimes irregularity of the PULSE...
Page 106 - I have known persons to remain for four days together in their dark close berths because they suffered loss from hunger, though compelled at the same time by want of water to heave overboard their salt provisions and rice. No cleanliness was enforced, the beds never 'aired, the master 'during the whole voyage never entered the steerage, and would listen to no complaints; the dietary contracted for was, with some exceptions, nominally supplied, though at irregular periods, but false measures were...