Remarks on two cases of poisoning by opium in young children / by J. Jardine Murray.

  • Murray, J. Jardine.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Remarks on two cases of poisoning by opium in young children / by J. Jardine Murray. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    And l)r Christison mentions an instance in which the adminis- tration of three drops of laudanum in a chalk mixture, for diarrhoea, to a stout child fourteen months old, was followed by coma, convul- sions, and death in about six hours. — (Op. cit., p. 714.) Unfortunately, children rarely recover from large doses of opium. As far as I am aware, the only authenticated instance on record, where a child has survived such a dose as was administered in the two cases which I have detailed above, is given by Mr Cola- han in the Dublin Medical Press for April 22, 1846, p. 244. A healthy child, aged nine months, received from its mother twenty- five minims of laudanum to procure sleep. The medical attendant was not summoned till six hours had elapsed ; but, by judicious and very energetic treatment, the child's life was saved. \ lU'UUAY AVl> G1BH, I'lUN mis, El)lNBi:KOl£,