STRYCHNINE IN CHOLERA CASES. To the
Editor,
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Indian Medical Gazette."
Sib.?On page 191 of your issue for this month there is a communication from Dr. Sutcliffe of Tundla, in the course of which he says he means to try hypodermic injection of Strychnine in the next case of cholera which comes under his treatment. I write to say, I used such injections in some hundreds of cases of cholera within the last four months and with very satisfactory results. I began the practice in the latter days of February and have since followed it in every case, where collapse seemed approaching or had set in. I give five minims of Liquor Strychnin? in an equal quantity of water. As my cases were almost all seen in their own houses, and there were so many to be visited, it was, as a rule, only possible to give two injections in the day to anyone case, that is, when on ray morning and evening rounds. I have given five injections in the 24 hours and two more during the following 12 hours in the case of a prisoner where the effects could be watched, and have no doubt the man owed his recovery to this remedy. When the urinary secretion has not been re-established within 12 hours or so of the cessation of the other symptoms I have used hypodermic injections of pilocarpine with, in many cases, marked success, urine being passed within less than five minutes after the use of the syringe. I hope to send you some further and fuller notes on this subject when cholera disappears from my station.
Bikanir, Ra,tputana June 16, 1892.
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FFRENCH-MULLKN, M.n,
Editor,
"
Indian Medical Gazette."
Sib.?On page 191 of your issue for this month there is a communication from Dr. Sutcliffe of Tundla, in the course of which he says he means to try hypodermic injection of Strychnine in the next case of cholera which comes under his treatment. I write to say, I used such injections in some hundreds of cases of cholera within the last four months and with very satisfactory results. I began the practice in the latter days of February and have since followed it in every case, where collapse seemed approaching or had set in. I give five minims of Liquor Strychnin? in an equal quantity of water. As my cases were almost all seen in their own houses, and there were so many to be visited, it was, as a rule, only possible to give two injections in the day to anyone case, that is, when on ray morning and evening rounds. I have given five injections in the 24 hours and two more during the following 12 hours in the case of a prisoner where the effects could be watched, and have no doubt the man owed his recovery to this remedy. When the urinary secretion has not been re-established within 12 hours or so of the cessation of the other symptoms I have used hypodermic injections of pilocarpine with, in many cases, marked success, urine being passed within less than five minutes after the use of the syringe. I hope to send you some further and fuller notes on this subject when cholera disappears from my station.
Bikanir, Ra,tputana June 16, 1892.
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FFRENCH-MULLKN, M.n,
