1. Were any of your patients bled previously to, or after the
saline injections into their veins?
2. Were the evacuations by purging, vomiting, or perspiration,
increased by the injections?
3. Did any of the patients submitted to the saline injection
plan die; and if examined after death, what were the
appearances?
4. Had the pulse at the wrist absolutely ceased, and for how
long; or had blueness of the surface taken place, and to what
extent, in any of your patients before the injection of the
saline fluids; and how many of such patients recovered under
that treatment?
5. Had suppression of urine been _perfectly_ established, and
for how long, in any of your cases previously to the saline
injection, and what effect did that practice appear to produce
on the urinary secretions?
6. What effect did the injections appear to have on the
temperature of the patient?
7. Were the blood and evacuations analysed before and after the
injections?
8. Did consecutive fever occur in any, and if so, in how many
of your cases, whether successful or otherwise?
9. Was the quantity of the evacuations noted before and after
the injections in any of your cases?
10. Please to give the details of two or three cases treated by
saline injections, with age, condition of life, temperament,
habits, &c., and particulars of such other treatment as may
have been adopted in addition to the saline injections.