Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ...from sixteen hours to two days; and intervals, extending from ten days to three weeks, but never longer, have intervened between the attacks of pain, and these when short, have generally been followed by a recurrence of the symptoms in two or three davs. In this, as in the preceding cases, almost every means of cure appeared to have been already had recourse to, but, as usual, without procuring any permanent alleviation of the sufferings of the patient, except that small doses of acetate of morphia administered during the paroxysm, sometimes caused an immediate cessation; but it was attended with this inconvenience, that if it did not produce the desired effect, all the symptoms were immediately aggravated to a great degree. The digestive functions in this patient appeared to be considerably impaired, her circulation languid, and her extremities cold, especially during the attack. On these accounts she was put under a course of laxatives, combined with blue pill, for about a week, which was the means of removing these symptoms, but without producing any change on the disease itself. As it appeared that carbonate of iron was almost the only medicine which she had not previously made use of, it was prescribed in pretty large doses, and persevered in until it evidently appeared to exercise no effect whatever upon the symptoms: it was then given up, and about six weeks afterwards the Veratria was applied. At the commencement of one of the accessions, she rubbed over the eyebrow and forehead of the affected side, part of an ointment made with twenty grains of the Veratria to an ounce of lard; and after the friction had been continued in the usual manner for about twenty minutes, the paroxysm was cut short. During the interval she was directed...
