Memphis Medical Monthly Volume 2, No. 1 baixar o livro de graça

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. 1882 Excerpt: ...benign forms of diabetes. Poisonous Properties Of Quinine. 27 5th. Intermittent affections supervening in such subjects, may take on certain characters of malaria or glycosuria, or of both diseases at the same time. Traumatic lesions may awaken or aggravate the two diatheses, particularly the accidents of malarial origin. M. Leon Colin considered that a greater number of observations were needed to confirm the conclusions arrived at by M. Verneuil.--Medical and Surgical Reporter. POISONOUS PROPERTIES OF QUININE. Dr. W. 0. Baldwin Medical Gazette, Oct. 22), in quite a startling paper, gives t'he following cases: The first case that led me to suspect that quinine was capable of producing poisonous effects, occurred in my own household. A man servant, colored, thirty years old, had an attack of acute pneumonia of the right lung, 'on the 25th of October, 1845, whilst I was temporarily absent from home. He was attended by a professional friend, who made copious notes of the case, from which 1 gather that the pneumonia was at no time of a violent character. The patient commenced taking quinine at 5 o'clock P. M. on the 27th, and continued it until 1:30 o'clock p. M. on the 28th, during which time he took 68 grains.. At 3 p. M. (one and a half hours after the last dose of quinine), the doctor was called in haste, and his notes at this visit I here give in full: "28th, 3 o'clock p. M. Called to patient. He had a little while before been taken with a jerking motion of the whole body, which lasted several minutes, and immediately after his vision was so imperfect that he could hardly distinguish anything. Found whole surface hot; respiration irregular, from 11 to 20; pulse 100, full and rather firm; temporal veins turgid and temporal artery throbbing; great restl...