Observations on the injurious tendency of extreme depletion in inflammatory disorders : with remarks on the remedial agency of the vapour bath in acute and chronic diseases : illustrated by cases / by Edward Daniell, surgeon.

  • Daniell, Edward, 1795-1865.
Date:
1833
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Credit: Observations on the injurious tendency of extreme depletion in inflammatory disorders : with remarks on the remedial agency of the vapour bath in acute and chronic diseases : illustrated by cases / by Edward Daniell, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    decided change had taken place; she no longer complained either of pain, weariness, or head-ache ; on the contrary, the bloom of health played upon her cheek, she could attend to her duties with alacrity, nor has she found it needful to have recourse to medical treatment since. Having mentioned the nitrate of potash as an auxiliary in cases of this description, it would not be foreign to the present essay to speak a little of the importance of that agent in the treatment of inflammatory disorders, particu- larly in those cases which are the consequence of a peculiar d'utthesis, and where that diathesis has been brought about by depleting measures. CASE IV. A young lady, twenty-two years of age, of florid com- plexion, low stature, and inflammatory habit, was seized, in the spring of 1828, with an attack of pleurisy, accompanied with sore throat, hard and frequent pulse, white tongue, urine scanty and high coloured, acute pain in the chest, difficulty on inspiration. On enquiry it proved that this was a common seizure, that she was liable every five or six weeks to be thus affected, and that the ordinary remedy had been bleeding. She was unable, though so young, to state how frequently she had undergone this operation, scarcely six weeks passing over without an attack, and, consequently, without the remedy. Although by this treatment temporary relief was always afforded, yet it appeared but reasonable that perseverance in the plan must ultimately destroy her constitution, or bring about some more serious and fatal malady. To at once discontinue a system which had almost established itself as a habit in the constitution, appeared rather a dangerous proceeding, she was therefore cupped on