Case of a singular and alarming concurrence of scorbutic haemorrhagies, terminating favourably / by Thomas Fowler ; communicated in a letter to a friend.

  • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801.
Date:
1789
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Credit: Case of a singular and alarming concurrence of scorbutic haemorrhagies, terminating favourably / by Thomas Fowler ; communicated in a letter to a friend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    3Cth April i77i. Mifs P of York, aged twenty-eight, on rifing this morning, dif- covered on her arms, bread, lips, &c. a num- ber of livid fpots, about the breadth of com- mon peafe, which appeared like fo many black patches. Her gums were very fpongy, and exhibited alfo livid fpots, from feveral of which the blood began to ooze. She is of a fcorbutic and melancholy condi- tution, has led a very fedentary life, having been condantly engaged in the bufinefs of a mantua-maker for thefe eight years pad ; dur- ing which, fhe has had an habitual dyfpncea, and frequently complained of her gums being fore to the touch, and difpofed to bleed from the flighted preffure. Appetite good. Stools and menfes regular. Pulfe fmall and weak, and naturally rather quick. About five weeks ago, (he was feized with a flow fever ‘x from which, however, with me- dicinal affidance, fine recovered in lefs than three weeks, and has made no complaints fince, till this morning. Ordered to take a powder of fix grains of alum, and fix of dragon’s blood, with ten drops of the acid elixir of vitriol, in three tablc- fpoonfuls