The Medical Repository (Volume 2) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1811. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... will in some cases relieve, if early applied, yet the most desperate may yield to repeated bleeding* ad deliquium from the jugulars, the free use of tartar emetic and other evacuants, with a large blister covering the larynx and aspera arteria, while the mucus filling up the ramifications of the bronchia may be emptied by the action of vomiting." At the same time, we recovered another document, which had become equally rare. This is A Letter from Peter Middletok, M. D. to Mr. Richard Bayley, on the CKous, dated New-Tork, Nov. 30, 1780. Dear Sir, IN consequence of our late conversation on the subject of the angina sufFocativa, or croup, as we call it in Scotland, and here vulgarly called, but very improperly, the sore throat distemper; I have recollected a few cases in that disorder where some died of it, and where I was indulged with an opportunity of examining a few bodies. When I first came to this city, in 1752, I found complaints of the throat not unfrequent; but most of them were usually considered as having a malignant tendency, if not actually angina? gangrenosa?; and in consequence of this general belief, antiseptics were the remedies used in preference to all evacuants, except perhaps emetics. Being a stranger to the climate and its diseases, I for some time acquiesced in these notions, which I found prevailed equally among the inhabitants, and the Practitioners in Physic of the first reputation. The first opportunity I had of being convinced that the diseases of the throat had not been properly distinguished, was in the case of a black child of about twenty months old, belonging to George Harrison, Esq; where I was called in consultation. The child was lusty and strong, had the usual appearances of swelled tonsils and inflamed fauces, with fever; the th...