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abdomen admitted affected already apothecary appeared arose became blood vessels bowel complaint brain and nervous calomel calomel and opium causes chalk mixture chalk powder character cholera circumstances committee condition constitution contagion continued cramps cure day-books degree diarrhoea died diet disorder dissection ditto 1 ditto dose of calomel dysentery ecchy ecchymosis employed epidemic Ethalion evacuations extent extravasated fact fatal female fever flux formidable head-ach Holford hulks individuals inference infirmaries instances intestinal canal intestines kind labour medicine ment mercury Millbank month morbid moreover mucous membrane nature nervous system number of prisoners observation occurred opium origin pain patches patients Peniten Penitentiary period physicians Pratt prescribed present procured produced pulse purgatives question racter Regent's Park relapse relief remedies Report respect Roget salivation scorbutic scurvy seemed severe shew sick spots of ecchymosis stomach success suffered symptoms Tables tenesmus tentiary tiary tion treated ulcers various vascular vertigo whole women Woolwich
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Page 5 - of March, no less than forty-eight prisoners came into the infirmaries affected chiefly with diarrhoea and dysentery. The diarrhoea and dysentery were of a peculiar kind, and were suspected to have a connexion with the scorbutic disease. At this time, also, all these various affections were found spreading extensively, but in different
Page 16 - That half a pound of flesh meat, without bone, be allowed to every prisoner, once a week, on Sunday. 2d. That, in addition, half a pound of flesh meat be allowed to every prisoner once a fortnight, on any day that the Committee may think proper.
Page 16 - 4th. That the prisoners should have one meal each day entirely of solid food; that is, if they have gruel for breakfast, and gruel for supper, that their dinner should not be of soups or broth; but that, of whatever vegetable or animal substances it consist, they should be given in a solid form.
Page 33 - slime. But they consisted sometimes of a mass, like green or black grapes in -a state of fermentation; sometimes of a matter like yeast; sometimes they were in colour and consistence like half-slaked
Page 19 - NUMBERS AFFECTED WITH THE DISEASE. TABLE of the Number of Prisoners of different denominations, who were labouring- under one or other of the forms of the SCORBUTIC DISEASE, in the General Penitentiary, in the beginning of March, 1823.
Page 72 - Sometimes, the day after the first large dose of calomel and opium, we found the patient exulting that he had been cured as by a charm; that he had slept all night, and
Page 20 - From this Report it is obvious, that we had no other opinion concerning the disorder, than that it consisted of a diarrhoea or dysentery, and a slight scurvy combined; that it had been produced by impoverished diet and a severe winter; that it was already nearly cured, and that, although occasional instances of
Page 16 - has mainly contributed, as we conceive, to produce the present extensive disease, we recommend that, in future, animal food should make a larger part of the diet at the Penitentiary. Upon the subject of Diet, we recommend:— 1st. That half a pound of flesh meat, without bone, be allowed to every prisoner, once a week, on Sunday.
Page 3 - April, 1823. TO THE COMMITTEE OF THE GENERAL PENITENTIARY AT MILBANK. GENTLEMEN, IN conformity with the instructions conveyed to us in your resolution of the
Page 55 - the only visible traces of disease in those who died, after long-continued and incontrollable diarrhoea or dysentery. But the entire disease does not always consist in its visible marks upon particular organs. If injury be done to a healthy body, there, indeed, it may; and its