Researches on the effects of bloodletting in some inflammatory diseases : and on the influence of tartarized antimony and vesication in pneumonitis / by P. Ch. A. Louis ; translated by C.G. Putnam ; with preface and appendix by James Jackson.

  • Louis, P. C. A. (Pierre Charles Alexandre), 1787-1872.
Date:
1836
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Credit: Researches on the effects of bloodletting in some inflammatory diseases : and on the influence of tartarized antimony and vesication in pneumonitis / by P. Ch. A. Louis ; translated by C.G. Putnam ; with preface and appendix by James Jackson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    first a dose is given once in six hours. The operative effects are not seen, in many cases, till six or eight doses have been given. Then they are often quite violent, copious sweating, as well as vomiting and purging, taking place ; the pulse at the same time diminishing in hard- ness, force and frequency, and the muscular strength be- ing greatly prostrated. The appearance of the amend- ment in such cases is sometimes very striking; equal to that which follows the most profuse bleeding; while the permanent reduction of strength has been thought to be less than that from large bleedings. Sometimes the relief seems to ensue without such powerful, temporary influence. But on the other hand the sufferings of the patient are often great, when this medicine acts power- fully ; though I have never seen an instance, in which it seemed to increase the risk of life. In some cases, how- ever, the patient seems quite unable to bear the con- tinued use of this article for more than a single day. When colchicum and calomel have been used in the same case, it has usually been in succession; one being omitted, when the other has been prescribed. Third, of tartarized antimony. It is useless to state how long antimonials have been employed in febrile and inflammatory diseases. The use of them, however, in large doses, frequently repeated, without a view to their operative effects, and with a design to avoid these in a great measure, is, I believe, comparatively of modern date. Such a use of them was first made known to me c