Practical remarks : Part I. On acute and chronic opthalmia, ulcers of the eye, &c. &c. ; Part II. On remittant fever, viz. simple and complicated / by Thomas O' Halloran.

  • O'Halloran, Thomas.
Date:
1824
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    water ; he soon fell asleep.—Evening. Passed a good day; pulse between 100 and 104, since morning; three dark-green stools; urine orange- coloured, turbid, and viscid ; skin moist, cool; some sleep ; ptyalism increasing; cough dimi- nished ; relished some beef-tea, an egg, with some wine and water. 22d July.—The mouth very sore, and the discharge of blood from the gums consider- able ; pulse 102, soft, full; skin cool, moist; three stools last night, a little blood on one occasion ; the stools were bilious ; urine copious, depositing a sediment; some sleep last night; copious sweats. A gargle of alum, and tincture of bark.—Evening. Ptyalism profuse ; yellow- ness of the skin diminishing; appetite return- ing. 23d July.—From this period he continued to improve slowly until the 15th of August, when he was discharged hospital. He was ulti- mately restored to perfect health.