DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.14729#0053
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS IN THE EAST.
upon the recovery of the patient, he receives the balance,
which includes the cost of medicine.
Having arrived at Kannobin, I found the bishop suffer-
ing from nervous fever, in a state of insensibility. After a
strict examination, I entertained but little hopes of his
recovery. His numerous relatives, standing round his bed,
appeared to have resigned all hope previous to my arrival.
I agreed with the brothers of the bishop as to the amount
they were to pay me for my attendance, the half of which
I received in advance, for the medicines to be delivered,
the other half to be paid after the recovery of the
patient, from whose own hands I should receive it, according
• to the above-mentioned custom. All was legally signed by
the parties and witnesses. I caused the troublesome
spectators to withdraw, as by their thronging around the
bed they occasioned disturbance and confusion, and only
permitted four of them to remain as attendants. Then I
was able to reflect, and found that the patient had been
wrongly treated by his former physicians, and so reduced
to a most pitiable condition.
They had copiously bled him unnecessarily, and, led by
a false diagnosis, they had prescribed him a quantity of de-
coctions and purgatives. I learned from the attendants,
that four days previously the patient was constipated, which
occasioned him to fall into a state of insensibility. I found
it necessary to commence my treatment with a lenitive
clyster, which did not fail to have its good effect ; I after-
wards ordered the room to be airedx sprinkled the patient's
face with vinegar mixed with rose-water, and ordered his
feet to be warmed by friction.
At ten in the evening I applied a blister on the nape,
and administered a compound opiate powder, which was
given in a strong dose. I put it into his mouth, rinsed it
from his tongue, after which he began to perspire, and
passed a tolerably quiet night. The beneficial result was
owing to the properly proportioned mixture of the opium,
as I afterwards experienced in many cases, whilst a lesser
dose ( 1—2 grains opium ) made the malady worse. By
6
upon the recovery of the patient, he receives the balance,
which includes the cost of medicine.
Having arrived at Kannobin, I found the bishop suffer-
ing from nervous fever, in a state of insensibility. After a
strict examination, I entertained but little hopes of his
recovery. His numerous relatives, standing round his bed,
appeared to have resigned all hope previous to my arrival.
I agreed with the brothers of the bishop as to the amount
they were to pay me for my attendance, the half of which
I received in advance, for the medicines to be delivered,
the other half to be paid after the recovery of the
patient, from whose own hands I should receive it, according
• to the above-mentioned custom. All was legally signed by
the parties and witnesses. I caused the troublesome
spectators to withdraw, as by their thronging around the
bed they occasioned disturbance and confusion, and only
permitted four of them to remain as attendants. Then I
was able to reflect, and found that the patient had been
wrongly treated by his former physicians, and so reduced
to a most pitiable condition.
They had copiously bled him unnecessarily, and, led by
a false diagnosis, they had prescribed him a quantity of de-
coctions and purgatives. I learned from the attendants,
that four days previously the patient was constipated, which
occasioned him to fall into a state of insensibility. I found
it necessary to commence my treatment with a lenitive
clyster, which did not fail to have its good effect ; I after-
wards ordered the room to be airedx sprinkled the patient's
face with vinegar mixed with rose-water, and ordered his
feet to be warmed by friction.
At ten in the evening I applied a blister on the nape,
and administered a compound opiate powder, which was
given in a strong dose. I put it into his mouth, rinsed it
from his tongue, after which he began to perspire, and
passed a tolerably quiet night. The beneficial result was
owing to the properly proportioned mixture of the opium,
as I afterwards experienced in many cases, whilst a lesser
dose ( 1—2 grains opium ) made the malady worse. By
6