_6 Quality Street, May 26th, 2 o’clock, A. M._
No. 7.
_Latest Communication from Dr. Lewins to the Secretary of the Central
Board of Health._
Sir,--The urgency of my present private and public duties
prevents me from communicating more to you to-night than the
following brief particulars of a case that occurred at the
Leith Cholera Hospital yesterday:--
A woman of about forty years of age, was admitted on Sunday
evening at 7 o’clock. She was _pulseless_, even at the axilla,
_sightlesss_, _cold_, and _blue_, over almost the whole body.
_Respiration_ very slow and irregular--in a word, she was
all but lifeless. It was feared she would be dead before the
operation of injecting could be commenced. Between 7 at night
and 2 o’clock next morning, there were thrown in two hundred
and eighty-four ounces, upwards of twenty-three pounds. The
report of her situation at 2 on Monday morning, in the hospital
book, is as follows:--“A change for the better, that appears
almost miraculous, has taken place. The action of the heart is
greatly improved; respiration not in the least laborious, but
quicker than natural; pulse 120, small, but distinct. She can
articulate distinctly; countenance natural; lips red; tongue
moist and warm; she perspires freely; heat over the whole body
natural.”
A full report of this wonderful case shall be forwarded soon.