The treatment of rheumatic fever with salicin and salicylate of soda / by Edward Headlam Greenhow.

  • Greenhow, Edward Headlam, 1814-1888.
Date:
1880
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Credit: The treatment of rheumatic fever with salicin and salicylate of soda / by Edward Headlam Greenhow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing the right knee and ankle became similarly affected, and he had some shivering. State on admission.—Pulse 90; temperature 102*3°. Is sweating very freely ; both knees and ankles and left wrist swollen, red, and very tender; heart sounds clean. March 17.—9 a.m. Pulse 80 ; temperatnre 101*2°. Slept badly ; pains rather less severe ; urine, sp. gr. 1031, acid. 9 p.M.—Pulse 76 ; temperature 100*6°. Sweating freely. 18. —9 A.M. Pulse 80 ; temperature 99*8°. Pulse small: pains continue severe ; did not sleep well. Take 20 grains of salicin every two hours. 9 p.M.—Pulse 80; temperature 100*6°. Sour sweating. 19. —9 A.M. Pulse 76; temperature 99*6°. Slept well; still much tenderness of knees, ankles, and left hand. 9 p.M.—Pulse 80 ; temperature 102*6°. Very copious sweating. 20. —9 A.M. Pulse 68 ; temperature 98*9°. Pulse weak ; pains much easier, but swelling and tenderness of knees and ankles continue ; slept well; sweating freely. 9 p.M.—Pulse 76; temperature 100°. 21. —9 A.M. Pulse 72; temperature 99*4. Bathed in sour perspiration. From March 21 to 31 the temperature ranged from 97*8° to 99*7°, but was usually normal. The pulse varied from 68 to 88. The pains and swelling of joints and the sour sweating gradually subsided, but did not disappear before the middle of April. The salicin was reduced to a dose every four hours on March 28, and entirely discontinued on April 9. Dis¬ charged convalescent on April 30. Case YIII. | E. L., set. 29, married woman, admitted January 4, 1877. j A history of rheumatism in mother. Patient herself had rheumatic fever at the age of 19, but has in other respects enjoyed unimpaired health. The present illness commenced , with shivering and aching in the limbs ten days ago. Se- s vere pains in the knees and wrists followed, and she became unable to move about. Is nursing an infant twelve months ^ old. : State on admission.—Pulse 100 ; temperature 101*8°. 1 Heart sounds clean; complains of pains in the knees and I wrists, but these joints are neither swollen nor tender. ! 9 p.M.—Pulse 86 ; temperature 101°. January 5.—9 a.m. Pulse 80 ; temperature 101*7°. Left j I *