Quarterly Compendium Of Medical Science 1887 Vol 17

Excerpt from Quarterly Compendium of Medical Science, 1887, Vol. 17: A Synopsis of the American and Foreign Literature of Medicine, Surgery and Collateral Sciences I have struggled with the delirium of fevers, and with the delirium of tremor ous drunkards, but I never before met a patient so violent as was this poor girl. I remained with her the remainder of the night, and repeated the morphine in quarter grain hypodermatic does; I do not now recall exactly how many, pro bably half a dozen. The morphine acted beneficially almost from the first, and the patient, toward morning, went into a slumber, respirations falling to ten per minute about five o'clock. 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.

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