21st.—A draught was ejected mixed with blood, and a quantity of bilious fluid; diarrhœa during the night; the feces were mixed with blood; pulse 120; skin hot. Bleeding to twelve ounces; blood sizy.
22d.—Slept a little during the night; had several alvine evacuations of a bilious fluid mixed with blood. The tension of the belly is not so great. He still complains of pain. Tea remains on his stomach. Bleeding to twelve ounces; fomentations and poultices to the belly; chicken and beef broths; injections frequently.
24th.—Feels considerable relief from the tension of the abdomen having subsided; threw up his tea and a quantity of clotted blood this morning.
26th.—Had a bad night; pulse 125, and full. Complains of great pain in the hepatic region, and backward toward the spine. Bleeding to sixteen ounces. ℞.—Hydrarg. chlorid. gr. iv; conf. rosæ. gr. ix; to be made into two pills, one to be taken twice a day.
30th.—Vomiting in the night, mixed with blood; tea, etc. remain on the stomach this morning; pulse 108.
July 5th.—The adnatæ have a yellow tinge; in other respects he is doing well. ℞.—Chlorid. hydrarg. gr. x; extr. colocynth. comp. ʒj: to be made into ten pills, one to be taken three times a day.
20th.—The wound perfectly healed; is cleaning his accoutrements, boots, etc. Was discharged on the 28th of July, perfectly recovered.
Owen M’Caffrey, aged thirty-three, first battalion 95th Regiment, was wounded on the 18th of June at the battle of Waterloo, by a musket-ball, which penetrated the cavity of the abdomen on the right side, about midway between the superior anterior spinous process of the ilium and the linea alba. When admitted into the Minimes General Hospital three days after, he was in the most deplorable state; the whole abdomen was tense and exquisitely tender; the pulse small and wiry; vomiting incessant, with hiccough and ghastly visage. From this period to the 24th, he was thrice largely blooded, and the strictest antiphlogistic plan was laid down and rigidly adhered to. Laxative injections were administered, the whole of the abdomen was frequently fomented, and opiates were administered to allay the irritability of the stomach, and to procure ease and rest. On the 25th the wounded intestine sloughed, and the feces escaped by the external orifice, the adherence of the two surfaces of the peritoneum preventing any, even the smallest portion, getting into the cavity of the abdomen.
26th.—The high inflammatory action having been reduced, milk, rice, and sugar, and the farinaceous part of the potato were allowed.
July 1st.—No very alarming symptom remains. Half a fowl ordered for his dinner, and the greatest attention to personal cleanliness directed to be paid.