1. None before. One to the amount of twelve ounces immediately
after the first injection.
2. The evacuations by purging and vomiting, in most of the
cases continued. In some of them the purging, the discharge
from the bowels at least, was increased. Perspiration was
increased in all.
3. Yes; no less than ten of the fifteen that have been injected
up to the present day; but under such circumstances as do not
detract from the general merits of the practice: this will be
made evident by the history of the cases that will be sent by
to-morrow’s post.
4. Yes; even at the axilla in some of the cases, blueness of
the surface had taken place to a considerable extent. Five of
these patients recovered.
5. Complete suppression, I think, in all except two, and for
hours. In all the successful, and in some of the unsuccessful
cases, the effects of the injection in restoring the secretion
of urine were most evident.
6. The injections raised the temperature of the body; but in
all the successful cases, where the veins were injected, the
patients complained of cold soon after the injection.
7. Neither the blood nor the evacuations were analysed, but I
sent some of the blood of a patient that had been injected by
the veins, to Dr. Reed for analysis to-day.
8. The consecutive fever in all the patients who were injected,
has been slight.