PERCHLORIDE OF MERCURY IN DYSENTERY.

Perchloride of Mercury and Cannabis Indica in Dysentery

Seeing that the use of mercury has been deprecated in all stages and forms of dysentery (Maclean in Russell Reynolds' .System of Medicine), I hesitated for sometime to use the perchloride in a declared case of that disease; but at length, after noting its great value iu many cases of diarrhoea, as previously mentioned, I was induced to try it in acute dysentery ; the results were highly satisfa...

A Case of Perchloride of Mercury Poisoning

a burning sensation in the stomach, which soon became so severe that he rolled about in pain I was called in, and saw him half an hour after, when his lower jaw and lips were swollen, breathing difficult, swallowing painful and saliva running from his mouth. He was treated with albumin, &c., but in a few hours swallowing became impossible, and he was fed per rectum for three following days; he ...

On the Treatment of a Case of Cholera in an European by a Deep Subcutaneous Injection of Perchloride of Mercury

Walter H. Jones, aged 22, a seaman, was admitted iuto the Moulmein General Hospital on the 17th of June at 10-30 a.m., with cholera. The symptoms were well developed. I whs iu the hospital when he arrived in a gharry, accompanied and supported by the captain and one of the sailors of the British ship Glanperis, to which the sufferer also belonged. It was not necessary to make any enquiries as t...

Dysentery in Asylums

Action of Ipecacuanha in Dysentery

the rationale of it. Ipecacuanha ha3 since the last few years been remarkably successful in the treatment of dysentery, and high eulogiums have been passed upon it from different quarters. Many have tried, more or less successfully, to explain its modus operandi. Dr. Hutchinson, in the last number of the Gazette, gives out his view of the action of ipecacuanha in dysentery. He believes that the...