Taenia cured by ol. terebinthinae / [Robert Hartle].

  • Hartle, Robert, 1775-1860.
Date:
1818]
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Credit: Taenia cured by ol. terebinthinae / [Robert Hartle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    444 Abstracts of. Practical Facts, with Remarks. is stated to have been observed, particularly one portion or coagu- lum, ‘upwards of an inch in extent,’ which was found ‘ lying at the superior margin of the right lateral ventricle.’ Observations.—The preceding details are extracted from a com¬ munication, by Mr. Jewel, of Gerrard Street, inserted in the Lon¬ don Med. Journal for February (p. 109). From the original article it appears that the patient had been confined in child-birth only fourteen days before the attempt made upon her life; that she had been previously subjected to a severe course of mercury, for some supposed syphilitic complaints; and that her mind had been for some time (perhaps months) in a state of extreme dejection and distress, in consequence of the alleged nature and apparent obsti¬ nacy of these complaints. Under these circumstances, it is but reasonable to presume, that she was, at the time of the transaction above alluded to, but ill qualified, either in mind or in body, to bear up against infliction of any kind ; or to endure with impunity, and still less with advantage, the continued application of powerful agents, whose chief operation consists in calling into activity, and therefore-, to a certain degree, in exhausting, the remaining powers of life. IX. Observations on the Use of Nitrous Acid as a substitute for Blisters. Communicated by Dr Kennedy, F. R. S. E. and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Extract of a Report from Mr Assistant Surgeon Killett, of the 3 d Regiment Light Care airy, to the Medical Board, Madras, dated Mhow, 4th November 1818. IN my report to the Board for the month of July last, I gave an account of the spasmodic cholera, as it came under my observation, during the short period it was prevalent at this place. In that report, I recommended bleeding and blistering as the remedies chiefly to be relied on, considering the disease to be a spasmodic affection of the stomach and bowels, accompanied with inflammation, and quickly followed by a diminution of the powers of the brain; and I hinted that the actual cautery might be employed with advantage, as producing a more instantaneous counter-irritation, than the slow acting emplastrum lyttae. Since writing the above mentioned report, I have been informed by Mr Assistant Surgeon Powell of the Bombay Detachment, now in camp, that he lias used the nitric acid to produce a quick counter-irritation, and with the best success. Of forty-one cases which Mr Powell treated in this way, six onlv died; and of nine w »