Researches on the chemical and medical properties of the root of kahinca / by Messrs. Francois, Caventou & Pelletier ; a memoir read at the Royal Academy of Sciences (Institute,) the 27th December, 1820 ; (extracted from the Journal general of medicine, May 1830) ; translated by John Baxter, M. D.

  • François, André, 1775-1840.
Date:
1831
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    hospital, without being cured, he saw an ascites deve- lope itself, and the lower extremities become infiltered. The 11th May, the period at which we were consult- ed, his state was frightful; the leanness was extreme ; there was thirst, oppression, constipation ; no sleep. The patient did not render, in twenty-four hours, but a glass of thick urine, red, and burning the passage. He prayed us to make him urinate. Twelve grains of the extract of kahinca gave place, really, to a black and fishy stool, and to a great quaniity of urine, of a deep brownish yellow. The unforiunate man thought him- self in the way of cure, and asked for a new dose. We refused it, under the pretext that it was necessary to have an interval in taking them. We did well. He expired forty-eight hours after. No. 23. Hotel Dieu, Hall St. Martin, No. 04, Marga- rite Gauthier, aged fifty-seven years, a ley-washer, living at Gros-Caillon, street St. Domicic, Ng. 41, complained, for two years, cf a stoppage or ihc menses, of an habit<j&£ catarrhal cough, which incommoded her a ntti£U It is eighteen months since she was first ttr. fected with ascites and anasarca of the inferior extremi- ties, without being able to assign the cause of these complaints. Notwithstanding a long use of digitalis, nitre, and squills, during eight months past, in hopitals, her state has not been improved. No appetite or thirst. Some developement which the abdomen has acquired, there may be perceived, in feeling it, a considerable indolent tumour, which, proceeding from the pelvis, mounts obliquely backward, and appears to belong to the right ovary. Otherwise, the patient only complains of an obstinate constipation, and of passing but little urine. Her sufferings are supportable. The 20th Au- gust, eighteen grains of extract; augmentation of the secretion of urine ; no stools. The 21st, six grains of the kahincic acid ; much urine—no alvine evacuation. Thirty grains of extract; abundant urine ; borborygmi; useless strainings. We proposed to inject the extract of kahinca into the bowels ; but the patient obstinately refused, pretending that she never could take injections ; neither would she swallow pills. The 25th, she deter, mined, nevertheless, to take ten grains of kahinoic