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Excerpt from A Case of Amputation at the Shoulder-Joint
Marc/t Iii - Patient slept well the night after the operation, and each night since. Has had a good appetite, no febrile reaction, and been very comfortable in all respects, except, as the weather is very severe, and the house not very comfortable at best, he has suffered somewhat from the coldness of his room. The wound is now (ninety-six hours after the opera tion), dressed for the first time. It looks well, only a slight degree of suppuration having become established. The sim ple water dressing was still reapplied, and the patient kept on nutritious but simple diet as before; and no medicine was ad vised, except a laxative as required from time to time, till suppuration was thoroughly established, when the sulphate of quinine in small doses was administered.
On the ninth day after the operation - up to which time all things progressed well - the patient was attacked with ery sipelas on the upper ?ap, and a good deal of febrile excitement ensued. This disease continued for ten days, and during its continuance extended over every part of the patient's body excepting the wound itself, which it never actually invaded at all. During this attack the patient was supported on sulphate of quinine and beef broth; and common Wheaten ?our was locally applied to the inflamed surface alternately with a lotion, of which laudanum formed a considerable part.
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