Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1837-08-30

thu JURISDICTION OF lanai and bourbon
streets, and through his eager desire to
reach home, between Custom House
and Blenville streets, he must have en-.
deayored to hasten his speed, which la.
inevitably increased the disease. When
| discovered him, and until the moment
OF his death, he was evidently laboring
under serious apoplexy of the lungs"
and | cannot but believe, from the his.
tory of the temperament and habits of
Mr.. Shepherd, had no been enabled to
command prompt and energetic medi.
cal aid, some three quarters Of an hour
or one half hour previous, his untimely
end might have been averted. He must
have lost in the above recorded time,
OF thirty minutes, at least one gallon of
serum.
From the complete obstruction Of the
whole extent Of the respiratory appa-
ratus, no possible relief even could be
expected, although many attempts were
made; and from tho rapid accumula.
ton OF serum which caused that OBJ.
structlon, It was manifest that no hu.
man means could possibly arrest il.
His intellect was undsturbed, further
than his bodily suiierings compelled
him to implore our exertions in giving
him relief. He retained il until few
minutes previous TO his death, when a
last and Intellectual struggle to respire
produced general convulsive move
meT, and he expired.
J. M. w. PICTON, NJ. d.
concur with Dir. Picton in his opin-
ion, that Mr.. Shepherd died Of serious
apoplexy of the lungs. saw him a
few minutes after he had been taken
into the corridor of the doctor's house,
and found him sitting, or rather sup
ported in chair, coughing and breath.
ing very laboriously, and discharging
necessarily, immense quantities ofwhte
frothy phlegm from the mouth and
nose, with cold skin, and thread like
pulse. He recognized me, and answer.
ed nationally, drank glass fsalts and
water, and asked for second one
On hearing me order servant TO go
for his friends, he begged that would
not do so, saying that he would be bet
ter presently and able to 60 home.--
The difficulty of respiration rapidly in
creased, as did the ofliux Of phlegm
from the lungs. The pulse vanished,
and he expired with slight convulsion
in about ten or fifteen minutes after
reached him.
The deceased was in his usual mo.
dsrately good health, up to the moment
of his attack, which, from the best in .
formation we have, occurred about half
an hour before his death. After spen.
ding the day in his accustomed manner
between business and walking, in the
afternoon for recreation, he stopped at
the house OF friend at from eight TO
half past eight o'clock, and drank a
glass oficed water, and observed that,
that was the eighth glass he had drank
since dinner. He was soon after sci
zed with great oppression at the chest,
succeeded by a violent paroxism OF
coughing, in which he expcctorated
some small particles Of blood, with
phlegm in considerable quantities. On
a momentary cessation Of his cough,
he set out for home, when it soon re-
turned, and his progress was arrested
as related by DR.. Picton. From all
that saw and have heard, it is my
opinion that the lungs alone was the
suffering organ. The heart and large
blood vessels connected with it, the
brain, and the stomach were unaflect-
ed, until the moment Of DISSOLUTION
He was suffocated from effusion of Sc.
rum on the lungs, with the same rapid
ity with which it not unlrequently takes
place in tho brain, producing serious
aplopexy Of that organ in a few mi
nutes. / will only add that the phleg-
matte temperament Of the deceased,
predisposed him to a disease Of this
character.
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