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A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels, comprising a new view of the physiology of the heart's action, according to which the physical signs are explained / [James Hope].

  • Hope, James, 1801-1841
Date:
1832]
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases of the heart and great vessels, comprising a new view of the physiology of the heart's action, according to which the physical signs are explained / [James Hope]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    variably improved by exercise, which he is capable of taking to a great degree. He was subject to occasional temporary local pains in the head with stupor, somnolency and sometimes with visual illusions. This patient after suffering for upwards of four years, ‘has almost completely recovered by a re- moval of the mental depression, by travelling as a pedestrian, by an abstemious dyspeptic diet, by strict attention to maintain regularity of the bowels, | by combatting fits of dyspepsia immediately on their appearance, (for which evacuation of the sto- mach by an emetic, followed by abstinence and an aperient were the most efficient remedies,) and by pills consisting each of a grain of sulphate of iron, one of aloes, and three of comp. cinnamon powder, taken to the extent of one or two whenever the bowels were torpid, a lavement being employed when the pills failed. In this case the sounds and action of the heart were natural except during the attacks of palpita- tion. The cerebral symptoms were partly nervous and partly those of a languid circulation through the head, but not of increased determination to it.