The Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Sugical Association. (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. 1835. Excerpt: ... them added anxiety to his zeal for the recovery of their child, an interesting little girl about 3 or 4 years old. Very vigorous treatment was adopted: local bleeding by leeches to the temples, brisk purging with calomel and scammony, the free and rapid recourse to mercury externally, and blisters to the head; nevertheless, he thought (and his opinion governed mine) that nothing could possibly save the child. He, however, availed himself of the opinion of the late Dr. Saunders, then Senior Physician of Guy's Hospital, who not only declined making any alteration in the plan of treatment, but seemed to think his sole business to be the delivering a funeral oration to the parents; and in this state the little patient was left to be watched by me, for little more was afterwards done. In twelve hours, however, the mercury which had been so freely used, began to act, and our little patient finally recovered, to the great joy of the parents, and to the surprise and gratification of Dr. Babington and myself. She afterwards became the wife of the present physician of that name; and I have much pleasure in quoting a correspondence I have just had with Dr. Babington, who has not only furnished me with some valuable and interesting facts respecting his lamented wife, but even allowed me thus to make use of them. He says, " Your patieut, whom you justly represent as having been most interesting, was separated from me by death," in January, 1824. Her health had been much weakened by the hot climate of India, and a very severe confinement with her first child; but she lived to give birth to four other children; and had in some measure rallied, when she became the subject of tubercular phthisis, which was developed in consequence of a casual cold, and ran rather a rapid ...