4. Had the pulse at the wrist absolutely ceased, and for how long; or had blueness of the surface taken place, and to what extent, in any of your patients before the injection of the saline fluids; and how many of such patients recovered under that treatment?
5. Had suppression of urine been perfectly established, and for how long, in any of your cases previously to the saline injection, and what effect did that practice appear to produce on the urinary secretions?
6. What effect did the injections appear to have on the temperature of the patient?
7. Were the blood and evacuations analysed before and after the injections?
8. Did consecutive fever occur in any, and if so, in how many of your cases, whether successful or otherwise?
9. Was the quantity of the evacuations noted before and after the injections in any of your cases?
10. Please to give the details of two or three cases treated by saline injections, with age, condition of life, temperament, habits, &c., and particulars of such other treatment as may have been adopted in addition to the saline injections.
ANSWERS BY DR. LEWINS.
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.