injection hypodermic oe chloral hydrate in the collapsed stage oe CHOLEEA : RECOVERY. By
Shamloll
Mttllick, L.M.S.,
Calcutta.
A Hindoo male, aged 45 years, was attacked with cholera on the night of the 25th November 1876, and on the morning of the 26th, at about 9 A sr., I was called in to take charge of the case. On exmination I found the patient in the collapsed stage of cholera ; he had had 10 to 12 rice-water stools since the attack. Vomited several times ; extremities icy cold ; eves at shut; passing stools in bed clothes,' unconsciously ; no the wrist; temperature below par; craving constantly for iced and toes of dark blue colour. water; unquenchable thirst; fingers I at once proposed to give hypodermic injections of chloral hyin solution in both arms at the inserdrate. I injected two grains tion of the deltoid muscle, and after an hour, I gave another injecdid not tion, as the first produce any good effect In the evening, at about 5 P.M., I again saw the patient who was in the : not same state pulse perceptible at the wrist; thirst much the Fame, but the blueness of the fingers and toes had diminished ; abdomen tympanitic, the patient complaining of pain in the back and loins. I ordered the following liniment to be l-ubbed on the spine and extremities :?p, Liniment: Ammonite 3i., 01. Cajuputi^i.
Shamloll
Mttllick, L.M.S.,
Calcutta.
A Hindoo male, aged 45 years, was attacked with cholera on the night of the 25th November 1876, and on the morning of the 26th, at about 9 A sr., I was called in to take charge of the case. On exmination I found the patient in the collapsed stage of cholera ; he had had 10 to 12 rice-water stools since the attack. Vomited several times ; extremities icy cold ; eves at shut; passing stools in bed clothes,' unconsciously ; no the wrist; temperature below par; craving constantly for iced and toes of dark blue colour. water; unquenchable thirst; fingers I at once proposed to give hypodermic injections of chloral hyin solution in both arms at the inserdrate. I injected two grains tion of the deltoid muscle, and after an hour, I gave another injecdid not tion, as the first produce any good effect In the evening, at about 5 P.M., I again saw the patient who was in the : not same state pulse perceptible at the wrist; thirst much the Fame, but the blueness of the fingers and toes had diminished ; abdomen tympanitic, the patient complaining of pain in the back and loins. I ordered the following liniment to be l-ubbed on the spine and extremities :?p, Liniment: Ammonite 3i., 01. Cajuputi^i.
