Cases of Hepatitis, Dysentery, and Diarrhoea: With Remarks.

Abstract

THE case of hepatitis occurred in a female, Mrs. M., of a plethoric habit of body, who had been subject to similar attacks while resident in India. The first symptoms inducing a call for medical aid, appeared on June the 11th, 1852, and were of a decided character. They reached their intensity on the 14th, notwithstanding the remedies used; the urine was scanty, thick, bilious coloured; fever high; breathing oppressed; and considerable pain in right hypochondrium. A smart dose of jalep and calomel was then given, which gave much relief, and sweating now took place, which considerably lessened the fever, and may have been caused by the depressing effect of the purgative allowing the diaphoretics previously administered to act easier