Thoughts on cholera asphyxia / by Robert Bree.

  • Bree, Robert, 1759-1839.
Date:
1832
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Credit: Thoughts on cholera asphyxia / by Robert Bree. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the agency of rust of iron, or carbonate of iron, comes to confirm me in the credit I may claim. I look to the treatment of the disorder of nerve, called the tic douloureux; and I must say that the ingenious physician* Dr. Carmichael, has lost no ad- vantage of reputation by boldly offering the practice which he adopted for the removal of that cruel infliction. This neuralgia and convulsive asthma are cognate complaints; and our lamented and patient friend, Dr. Pemberton, derived no more ease under his suffering of this neuralgia, from other agents, than from carbonate of iron. Case of Convulsive Asthma. Very recent opportunity, under the eye of the intelligent and learned Dr. Bostock, has given me evidence of the carbonate of iron being both effec- tual and safe, in the most tender subject of con- vulsive asthma with congestion, manifested both in the abdominal viscera and pulmonary organs. Miss Isabella Yates, a child of six years old, niece to Dr Bostock, had suffered these attacks every month or six weeks for five years. In all her attacks, besides * See also Mr. Hutchinson.