Part 68

Wells, Mr. Horace, on effects of nitrous oxyde, 14, 15

Wilks, Dr., report of post-mortem after death from chloroform, 186

Willis, Dr. Robert, on treatment of hooping-cough by inhalation of ether, 360

Wilson, Dr., Lumleian lectures of, 73

Wine of mandragora given before operations, 2

Woodville, Dr., on use of mandragora, 3

Wrist, excision of, under chloroform, 280

T. RICHARDS, 37, GREAT QUEEN STREET, LINCOLN’S INN.

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Footnote 1:

Messrs. Maule and Polyblank have an excellent photographic portrait of Dr. Snow in their “Scientific Portrait Gallery” series. Mr. Empson has also a bust, which has been greatly admired for its correctness and for its superiority as an artistic work.

Footnote 2:

Dr. Murchison, who with Dr. Budd rendered Dr. Snow all that able assistance which the best of medicine can offer, has kindly given me several particulars in regard to the fatal illness, which I embody in the text, with many thanks.

Footnote 3:

Dr. Murchison has also given me an outline of the post-mortem appearances, which is subjoined. “The post-mortem examination revealed slight white softening, only detectable by the microscope, in the right corpus striatum and optic thalamus, and fatty degeneration of the minute cerebral vessels. The heart was slightly fatty, but there was no valvular disease, nor atheromatous disease of aorta. The lungs were congested, and showed marked evidence of old disease at the apices. Both the kidneys were much contracted and granular, with numerous cysts, the right organ being almost entirely converted into cysts; with the uriniferous tubes either denuded, or containing granular disintegrating epithelium. There was distinct cicatrix of an old ulcer in duodenum, and the stomach was much congested, with numerous hæmorrhagic spots.”

Footnote 4:

See Monthly Journal of Med. Sc., vol. viii, p. 452.

Footnote 5:

Liber iv, cap. 76.?

Footnote 6:

Loc. cit.

Footnote 7:

Natural. Hist., lib. xxv, cap. 13.

Footnote 8:

De Herbarum Virtutibus, cap. 131.

Footnote 9:

Medical Botany, p. 236.

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