Transactions of the American Medical Association Volume 12 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1859 Excerpt: ...and pale; the pulse diminished in frequency, and increased in fulness; the dry, harsh skin rendered moist; the cold clammy skin restored to its normal state; the relations between the circulation in the trunk and extremities restored; the correlation between the physical, chemical, vital and nervous forces restored; and the wild delirium succeeded by calm intelligence. Whilst on the other hand, in more cases than one, I have seen active purgation, and the administration of alterative doses of Calomel, convert cases of ordinary intermittent and remittent fever into the dangerous congestive type, resulting in the formation of heart clots and speedy death. When stimulants and Sulphate of Quinia have been withheld, I have seen the patient die from complete exhaustion of the nervous and vital powers consequent upon the action of the malarial poison, either directly upon the nervous ganglia of the sympathetic system, presiding over the circulation and respiration, or by disturbances of the relations existing between the sympathetic and cerebro-spinal nervous systems; or primarily upon the cerebro-spinal system and sympathetic system simultaneously; or by sucb changes in the elements of the blood (especially of the blood-corpuscles), as resulted in the perversion of the nutrition of the nervous ganglia; or by the generation of compounds in the blood, and in the secretions of the liver, spleen and alimentary canal, which acted as poisons upon the sympathetic aud cerebro spinal nervous systems; or by the simultaneous action of the poison in all these different modes. Physical And Chemical Changes Of The Constituents Of The Blood In Malarial Fevee. The method of analysis1 employed in these investigations is similar in many respects to that employed by MM. Becquerel a...