. New York medical gazette and journal of health. d; so that thepatient was under its influence,considerably less than one minute. The dressings being completed,the patient was placed in bed; having sustained the operation well,without suffering much additional prostration or losing more than afew ounces of blood. During the following two weeks, cordials, opiates, tonics andnourishment were administered, carefully and assiduously, and attheir expiration, the prospects of the patient began to brighten. Thepulse became less frequent and fuller; food was borne better and re-lished ; the nervous s
. New York medical gazette and journal of health. d; so that thepatient was under its influence,considerably less than one minute. The dressings being completed,the patient was placed in bed; having sustained the operation well,without suffering much additional prostration or losing more than afew ounces of blood. During the following two weeks, cordials, opiates, tonics andnourishment were administered, carefully and assiduously, and attheir expiration, the prospects of the patient began to brighten. Thepulse became less frequent and fuller; food was borne better and re-lished ; the nervous system became more tranquil; and the vital ener-gies, generally, showed signs of recuperation. From this time for-ward, with the exception of a slight transient diarrhoea, no complica- MEDICAL GAZETTE. 149 tion, local or general, interfered with the healing and cicatrization ofthe stumps. Both progressed nearly equally towards cure; and onthe forty-second day after the operation, the patient was in a condi-tion to be discharged from the Double operation. Choparts operation. Case 2. In the following case of double amputation, Heys opera-tion was performed upon one foot, and Choparts, upon the other.—Videplates. Pat. Henly, laborer, set: 25, was admitted to the EmigrantsHospital, 10th February, 1852. Four days previous to his admis-sion, both of his feet were attacked by sphacelus, induced by expo-sure, while working on the canal near Trenton, New Jersey. He was 150 THE NEW-YORK in a condition of great prostration, and exhibited the constitutionalsymptoms usually accompanying gangrene. The feet and adjacentparts were discolored and tumefied beyond the ankle. The extent towhich the sphacelus would extend could not be accurately determined. The patient was put upon appropriate constitutional remedies, andcataplasms smeared with balsam Peru were ordered to be applied, so asto envelop the feet entirely. By the first of March, the line of de-marcation forme
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