ELIZABETH GASSET, æt. 32, married, admitted on the 8th day of fever.
Attack commenced, in addition to the common symptoms, with violent pain
of the bowels. Epigastre still extremely tender; tongue red, clean,
moist; no stool for six days; no pain of head or chest; pulse 99.
9th. Tenderness of epigastrium continues; tongue red and dry; no stool;
pulse 84; no cerebral nor pectoral symptoms.
10th. Died.
_Head._ Membranes and substance of the brain highly vascular; no
effusion. _Thorax._ Viscera healthy. _Abdomen._ [Eight inches of the
jejunum intussuscepted within a portion of the same intestine of equal
length; the farthest extremity of the intussuscepted part mortified; the
mucous membrane of the containing portion highly vascular and in a state
of ecchymosis; the intestinal canal, between the constricted portion and
the stomach, contracted, and its valvulæ conniventes enlarged and
œdematous; the size of the tube beyond the disease much diminished, and
the colon, especially, contracted into a mere cord.]
CASE XX.
JOSEPH DANBURY, æt. 20, stone-cutter. Admitted on the 15th day of fever;
pain of head, which has never been great, is now very slight; much
vertigo; eyes sallow; no uneasiness in chest; some cough; abdomen
tender; tongue brown; teeth sordid; much thirst; pulse 108.
26th. Since last report, pain of head never entirely absent; vertigo
constant and distressing; pain in the right side of the head much
increased to-day, while the vertigo is now gone; delirium; eyes
suffused; tongue dry; pulse 120.
36th. The pain of the head and the giddiness have continued to
alternate; both are now quite gone; mind confused and dull; expression
of countenance wild; muscular tremor; respiration hurried.
37th. Died.
_Head._ Pia mater vascular; substance of brain vascular; slight effusion
between the membranes and into the ventricles. _Thorax._ No prominent
disease. _Abdomen._ Peritoneal coat of intestines vascular; other
viscera healthy.
CASE XXI.
EDWARD FORRESTER, æt. 46, cabinet-maker. Admitted on 6th day of fever.
Complaint commenced with severe pain of back, loins, and epigastrium,
with sense of ardent heat. At present, pain of head slight; that of
epigastrium continues; tongue white, moist; no uneasiness of chest;
pulse 90.
7th. Pain of head, limbs and epigastrium; tongue white, dry; pulse 96,
full and strong. V.S. ad ℥xij.
8th. Pain of head gone; that of epigastrium diminished; pulse 110; blood
not sizy.
10th. Pain of head returned; that of epigastrium diminished; no sleep;
delirium; pulse 126.
12th. Pain of head again gone; delirium continues; pulse 110.
13th. No sleep; mind confused; delirium; subsultus tendinum.
15th. Cerebral symptoms undiminished; tongue dry and quite black; lips
and teeth covered with black sordes.
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