The Dublin Journal Of Medical And Chemical Science

Author : Royal Academy Of Medicine In Ireland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331231724
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (317 download)

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Download or read book The Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science, 1833, Vol. 3 written by Royal Academy Of Medicine In Ireland and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-29 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dublin Journal of Medical and Chemical Science, 1833, Vol. 3: Exhibiting a Comprehensive View of the Latest Discoveries in Medicine, Surgery, Chemistry, and the Collateral Sciences In different hands. Some found more carbon in cholera blood than there ought to be, and of course the most obvious mode of extracting it from the living man was by the inhalation of oxy gen. I was not present at any trial of this practice, but oxygen and protoxide of azote have, I understood, been administered in Dublin, and the effect did not warrant their repetition. Other experimenters announced their discovery of a lentor in cholera blood, or a great diminution of its water and soluble salts this led to the idea of injecting into the veins warm water, holding in solution certain quantities and proportions of muriate and carbonate of soda and chloride of potash; I could not bring myself (perhaps from old prejudices) to inject a quantity of this mixture nearly equal to the volume of all the blood in the body, as I read has been done, but I witnessed the operation on the two occasions it was performed in the Grange German-lane hos pital; four or five pints of water at the temperature of about 112° of F arht., having the usual salts dissolved in it, were slowly thrown into a vein in the bend of the arm after a few strokes of the piston, by which I should suppose ten or twelve ounces had been injected, the pulse at the wrist of the other arm became a little fuller and accelerated at the rate of about thirteen beats in a minute; until towards the close, the pa tient did not feel any thing particular from the process, but then he began to complain of a tightness about his chest; he expired half an hour after his arm was tied up, as I learned. In the other case, by some mismanagement, the cellular substance of her arm was extensively injected, but most of the fluid was thrown into the vein; in an hour and a half after I went into the ward where she was, and found her complaining very much of her arm, but of nothing else that could be put to the account of the injection she died within two hours from the commence ment of the trial. I did not by any means consider either of these cases hopeless previously to the injection; in both the pulse was palpable at the wrist in neither (particularly the fe male) was the heat of surface greatly reduced one of them had. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.