of a partial Obstruction of the Circulation. 501 



Case XIV. — Sadu Mistree, aged 30, was admitted into 

 the hospital on the 23rd October, in the collapsed stage of 

 cholera ; pulse imperceptible ; has vomited and voided white 

 conjee stools. The tourniquet was applied to the arm and 

 leg, and kept on permanently ; or only removed occasionally, 

 and applied for a time to the opposite member. Pulse 84°, 

 small and weak ; extremities cold ; trunk warm ; temperature 

 of the body 98°. 



2hth. — Body cool ; extremities cold ; pulse small, weak, and 

 88° ; conjee-water stools. The tourniquet has been applied, 

 but had been at times loosened ; it had been removed for two 

 hours before I saw the patient at my morning visit. On 

 its being again applied the pulse became more full and re- 

 gular, and the warmth of the body increased ; which was 

 found to be 99° by the thermometer. The usual calomel 

 medicines were likewise exhibited. 



26th. — Improving in every respect : continue the tourni- 

 quets. 



27th. — Nearly well ; slept well ; temperature of the body 

 natural ; secretes urine, and dejections much improved in 

 consistence and colour. Pergat. 



30^. — Weak ; in other respects well. 

 3rd November. — Left the hospital quite well. 

 I do not consider it necessary to relate other cases, as the 

 result continues much the same. I found it difficult to per- 

 suade native patients to continue the application of the tourni- 

 quets : not so much from any pain they produced, as from 

 their feeling a degree of restraint in the member, to which the 

 tourniquet had been applied ; and when there was, at the same 

 time, a feeling of great anxiety and restlessness, as is so often 

 the case in this dreadful disease, they seized any opportunity 

 of removing the ligature, which afforded almost the only 



