Remarks on irritative fever, commonly called the Plymouth dock-yard disease; with Mr. Dryden's detailed account of the fatal cases, including that of the lamented surgeon, Dr. [James] Bell / [John Butter].

  • Butter, John, 1791-1877.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Remarks on irritative fever, commonly called the Plymouth dock-yard disease; with Mr. Dryden's detailed account of the fatal cases, including that of the lamented surgeon, Dr. [James] Bell / [John Butter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    yet justified in trusting to a new medicine of this description in any case of danger, until we are more fully satisfied respecting the certainty of its operation, the purity of its composition, and the uniformity of its effect. 1 think it, however, a medicine highly worthy of trial, for a stomach which would not retain a drachm of bark might bear five grains of the sulphate of quinine. I am now trying it for two patients, the one a case of dyspepsia, and the other of intermittent fever, but I am not yet enabled to speak decidedly of its effects, for though the patients are getting better, good living no doubt has done as much as the medicine. According to Dr. Paris,* two pounds of Cinchona will yield five or six drachms of the sulphate of Quinine, of which he considers eight grains equal to an ounce of bark. We should not be authorised by Dr. Elliotson’s experiments to exceed the dose of five grains, even for a strong man. 1 cannot quit the consideration of this medi¬ cine, to which, I believe, I owe my life, with¬ out detailing briefly the particulars of my own case, which I consider to be highly impor¬ tant to the present enquiry, in a double point of view; and which I ought not to withhold * Pharmacologia.—5th edition.—1822.—Yol. 2. Art. Cin¬ chona,