. The Boston medical and surgical journal. mpound tincture of benzoin, afterbeing powdered with iodoform. Brandy n\,xxv, andMagendies solution i\v, subcutaneously ; heaters. November lJth. On dangerous list. Poultice hasmade burns much less painful. Little linger of lefthand, which had a brass ring on it, was slightly burnedunderneath the ring. November 22d. Little ringer of left hand has turnedcompletely black. Sloughs ou right hand are deeper,and are separating out. Arm swelled to elbow. To-night he feels miserably, and says he felt a repetitionof the shock of the electricity, at 4 oclock th
. The Boston medical and surgical journal. mpound tincture of benzoin, afterbeing powdered with iodoform. Brandy n\,xxv, andMagendies solution i\v, subcutaneously ; heaters. November lJth. On dangerous list. Poultice hasmade burns much less painful. Little linger of lefthand, which had a brass ring on it, was slightly burnedunderneath the ring. November 22d. Little ringer of left hand has turnedcompletely black. Sloughs ou right hand are deeper,and are separating out. Arm swelled to elbow. To-night he feels miserably, and says he felt a repetitionof the shock of the electricity, at 4 oclock this after-noon, the time of the accident, or very near it. Stillou the dangerous list. November 25th. Has been delirious for some and temperature up. Very sick to-day, andfailing fast. This afternoon, was constantly mutteringto himself. Pulse getting weaker and weaker. Takesbrandy, a teaspoonful at a time. Sloughs on righthand very deep, and foul smelling. Little finger ofleft hand entirely dead. Died at p. m. Name Disease,. There was, unfortunately, no autopsy, but it seemsprobable that the patient died of exhaustion from thesloughing burns. The symptom complained of, onthe 22d, deserves notice. At the time there werethree patients in the ward (Cases I, III and V) victimsof electrical accidents, the other two nearly oppositethis mau. He and one of the men opposite him (CaseIII) complained, of their own accord, at almost pre-cisely the same time, of feeling a shock like that oftheir original injury. Case V was up and about theward, nearly well, aud no inquiry was made as to whether he had a similar sensation. As the suggestionhas been made that the alleged increased susceptibilityto thunder-storms was due to an increased suscepti-bility to dampness, 1 inquired at the Signal Serviceoffice into the state of the weather on this day, andfound that the day was clear and cloudless, the windnorth-west, the barometer , the temperature 46°F., the dew-point , au
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