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MEDICAL REPORT. 
Report of Dispases and CasvaviEs occurring inthe public and private Practice 
of the Physician who.has the care of the Western District of the City Dispensary. ° 
—— 
NPseNs can be conceived more cal- 
culated to call forth painful feelings 
than a want of satisfaction respecting the 
management of those complaints that are 
so violent in their attacks and so rapid in 
their termination as to demand = im- 
mediate and decisive measures. Of this 
nature is croup, a disorder in which time 
lost is lost irrecoverably, medicine misap- 
plied is misapplied beyond the possibility 
of reparation. Many little subjects of this 
cruel complaint have undoubtedly been 
torn from the grasp of death by blood-let- 
ting and the warm-bath, but the writer has 
seen both thse expedients tried very often 
without avai, and he has lately in his own 
practice trusted almost entirely to pretty 
large and frequently repeated doses of ca- 
lomel, till the violence of the malady is 
subdued: together with the calomel, he 
orders the tartrite, of antimony ointment 
to the chest; and, when the application 
has been sufficiently early, he can consci- 
entiously and withont reservation affirm, 
that his expectations baye never been dis- 
appointed. Within the few last days he 
has been called upon to treat a case of 
croup '‘that-assumed a most terrific aspect, 
and the time of application for relief was 
at the most critical juncture of the disorder; 
the tracheal inflammationhad just proceed- 
ed to that point in which emptying the 
blood-vessels, if not productive of good, 
must inevitably have proved the cause of 
mischief—another three hours and hope 
would have fled. Two grains of calomel 
were administered every second hour, the 
antimony and opium application) was) or- 
dered to the chest, and the next Morning 
the subject of the disorder was) lyingvin 
bed with a soft and yielding cough, asub- 
dued pulse, and an eruption over the whole 
of the body similar to measles; this last ef- 
fect being demonstrably the result of the 
antimonial ointment, and which, by the 
way, furnishes evidence in favour of the 
ervading influence of the medicine 
In question, and proves that it does: some- 
thing more than produce a vicarious irrita- 
tion of a local kind. It is common to em- 
ploy blisters under these circumstances, 
but cantharides appear to be more partial 
in their operation thanantimony and opium, 
and blisters are positively objectionable 
when placed upon the throat, inasmuch as 
they mechanically impede the respiratory 
process, which, under the circumstances 
supposed, imperiously demands that every 
facility be given to it. When they are 
applied they ought to be applied low down 
on the chest. 
Against the imputation of unduly dread- 
ing the lancet the reporteralways wishes to 
protest. He has just left a patient in whom 
he has thought it necessary to institute five 
successive bleedings, in order at once to 
subdue pulmonary irritation, and make 
way for the unobstructed operation of 
other remedial processes ; but in another 
case with a disorder designated by the same 
name, and abstractedly of a similar nature, 
he might pause upon the propriety of even 
a single blood-letting ; so little is there in 
nomenclaturé as a guide to practice, and 
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