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BANDAGE IN PARACENTESIS ABDOMINIS.
165 and inflammation around the
pustule. These peculiarities gradually diminish, according to the number of individuals through whom the virus pours afterwards ; and hence I
BANDAGE IN PARACENTESIS ABDOMINIS. To the Editor
of THE LANCET.
consider the more recent the matter is taken SIR :—Itake leave, through the medium from the cow, the greater security will there of your widely-circulated pages, to recom-
be the individual vaccinated having adoption of the eighteen-tailed theagainst in its more small-pox form, if of the in bandages, paracentesis peritoneal he should happen to have malignant it all. ovarian of and that old, caustics, instead I was led to perform these experiments clumsy, and unscientific apparatus, " the from having seen the cow-pox go through all as at sheet," affording, once, great support its proper stages in a person, who was vacand comfort to the sufferer, and assistance to two days previous to the small-pox the operator, by a regular and steady pres- cinated making its appearance on him ; and imaginsure, in consequence of its presenting an that two dissimilar eruptive diseases uninterrupted broad and flat surface over ing could not happen in the same person at once, the whole of the parietes, during the operaI considered that the pox as it exists in the tion, and, as it supersedes the usual after was the same disease as the small-pox bandage, much fatigue and probable risk to cow in a milder form.-I am, sir, your obedient the patient are avoided. The bandage is made in five minutes, ofafrvant- HENRY H. RUGG, Surgeon, &c. stout calico, doubled, two yards long, and in width extending from the scrobiculus cordis to the pubes, the ’ tails’ about four inches broad, and divided to the normal size of the TESTS OF POISON. abdomen, so that when the fluid is drawn off, the points of their junction shall em. RECENT INQUEST AT HERTFORD. brace the parietes sufficiently to afford the requisite support, the ’tails’ are then to be To the Editor of THE LANCET. passed round, and secured. SIR :-In to broad is be in N.B. The your last Number but one, under applied part front, and the tails interlaced behind, and the head " FORENSIC MEDICINE," there was approximated by one or two assistants, (abstracted from the Hertford Reformer) during the operation.-I am, sir, your obe- an account of an inquest held in this town upon the body of a woman who was supdient servant, T. W. WANSBROUGH. posed to have been poisoned by oxalic acid, and in whose case Mr. Shillitoe and myself had been engaged in post mortem examination, and in testing the contents of the stomach. You were kind enough to transfer IDENTITY OF COW-POX AND our report of the case at full length into THE SMALL-POX. LANCET. In that report we stated, thatIn respect only did the contents of the sto. one To the Editor of THE LANCET. mach fail to give the same result as a soluSiR :-During the last three years, when- tion of oxalic acid in water. A white, heavy ever an opportunity presented itself, I have precipitate, as before stated, will be caused tried to establish the fact that the pox, by the action of nitrate of silver on solutions which occurs spontaneously on the cow, is of various substances ; but it is characteristic the same disease as that which occurs to the of that produced on a solution of oxalic acid human subject, and which we denominate to detonate, when dried on a filter, and ex.. variola or small-pox. The means which I posed on a spatula to the heat of a spirit have taken to arrive at this conclusion, are lamp. No detonation could be caused by exceedingly simple, and may have been the precipitate from the liquid found in the tried by others before me; but, if so, I do stomach." We accounted for this absence not think they have been published. of detonating property, by the facts that Having a patient, labouring under variola, the quantity of acid in the stomach after I took some virus therefrom, and innoculated death was very small, owing to the constant a cow’s udder. On the sixth day, I took vomiting which had continued for several some lymph from the cow, and vaccinated a hours before death, and that this small quan. child, two years of age, therewith. On the tity was mixed with a large proportion of third day this produced the vaccine vesicle, animal matter, precipitated by the nitrate of and at the fifth day came to maturity. I silver, together with the acid. have frequently tried the experiment since, Now, in a case like this, where any doubt with the like success. The characteristics might exist, it is satisfactory to know that a generally noticed, when a child is vaccinated boy,living in the same house as the deceased, with lymph procured in this manner, are-has, since the inquest, come forward to conthe vesicle is sooner formed, sooner comesfess "that he bought two pennyworth of oxalic to perfection, and there is greater irritation acid for the deceased, a few days before her
mend the
I
pustule. These peculiarities gradually diminish, according to the number of individuals through whom the virus pours afterwards ; and hence I
BANDAGE IN PARACENTESIS ABDOMINIS. To the Editor
of THE LANCET.
consider the more recent the matter is taken SIR :—Itake leave, through the medium from the cow, the greater security will there of your widely-circulated pages, to recom-
be the individual vaccinated having adoption of the eighteen-tailed theagainst in its more small-pox form, if of the in bandages, paracentesis peritoneal he should happen to have malignant it all. ovarian of and that old, caustics, instead I was led to perform these experiments clumsy, and unscientific apparatus, " the from having seen the cow-pox go through all as at sheet," affording, once, great support its proper stages in a person, who was vacand comfort to the sufferer, and assistance to two days previous to the small-pox the operator, by a regular and steady pres- cinated making its appearance on him ; and imaginsure, in consequence of its presenting an that two dissimilar eruptive diseases uninterrupted broad and flat surface over ing could not happen in the same person at once, the whole of the parietes, during the operaI considered that the pox as it exists in the tion, and, as it supersedes the usual after was the same disease as the small-pox bandage, much fatigue and probable risk to cow in a milder form.-I am, sir, your obedient the patient are avoided. The bandage is made in five minutes, ofafrvant- HENRY H. RUGG, Surgeon, &c. stout calico, doubled, two yards long, and in width extending from the scrobiculus cordis to the pubes, the ’ tails’ about four inches broad, and divided to the normal size of the TESTS OF POISON. abdomen, so that when the fluid is drawn off, the points of their junction shall em. RECENT INQUEST AT HERTFORD. brace the parietes sufficiently to afford the requisite support, the ’tails’ are then to be To the Editor of THE LANCET. passed round, and secured. SIR :-In to broad is be in N.B. The your last Number but one, under applied part front, and the tails interlaced behind, and the head " FORENSIC MEDICINE," there was approximated by one or two assistants, (abstracted from the Hertford Reformer) during the operation.-I am, sir, your obe- an account of an inquest held in this town upon the body of a woman who was supdient servant, T. W. WANSBROUGH. posed to have been poisoned by oxalic acid, and in whose case Mr. Shillitoe and myself had been engaged in post mortem examination, and in testing the contents of the stomach. You were kind enough to transfer IDENTITY OF COW-POX AND our report of the case at full length into THE SMALL-POX. LANCET. In that report we stated, thatIn respect only did the contents of the sto. one To the Editor of THE LANCET. mach fail to give the same result as a soluSiR :-During the last three years, when- tion of oxalic acid in water. A white, heavy ever an opportunity presented itself, I have precipitate, as before stated, will be caused tried to establish the fact that the pox, by the action of nitrate of silver on solutions which occurs spontaneously on the cow, is of various substances ; but it is characteristic the same disease as that which occurs to the of that produced on a solution of oxalic acid human subject, and which we denominate to detonate, when dried on a filter, and ex.. variola or small-pox. The means which I posed on a spatula to the heat of a spirit have taken to arrive at this conclusion, are lamp. No detonation could be caused by exceedingly simple, and may have been the precipitate from the liquid found in the tried by others before me; but, if so, I do stomach." We accounted for this absence not think they have been published. of detonating property, by the facts that Having a patient, labouring under variola, the quantity of acid in the stomach after I took some virus therefrom, and innoculated death was very small, owing to the constant a cow’s udder. On the sixth day, I took vomiting which had continued for several some lymph from the cow, and vaccinated a hours before death, and that this small quan. child, two years of age, therewith. On the tity was mixed with a large proportion of third day this produced the vaccine vesicle, animal matter, precipitated by the nitrate of and at the fifth day came to maturity. I silver, together with the acid. have frequently tried the experiment since, Now, in a case like this, where any doubt with the like success. The characteristics might exist, it is satisfactory to know that a generally noticed, when a child is vaccinated boy,living in the same house as the deceased, with lymph procured in this manner, are-has, since the inquest, come forward to conthe vesicle is sooner formed, sooner comesfess "that he bought two pennyworth of oxalic to perfection, and there is greater irritation acid for the deceased, a few days before her
mend the
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