JAMES MOULDEN, æt. 17, servant. Admitted on the 5th day of fever; left
the hospital three months ago cured of a similar attack. Present relapse
came on besides the ordinary symptoms, with severe pain of the head;
pain still continues, but it is now only slight; expression of
countenance dull and heavy; pulse 92, soft; no thoracic symptoms; no
tenderness of abdomen; tongue loaded in middle with yellow fur, red
around the edges, moist.
6th. Pain of head continues with sense of weight and intolerance of
light; scarcely any sleep; pulse 102.
9th. Pain of head and intolerance of light increased; adnatæ glistening;
pulse 94.
10th. Pain of head quite gone; sense of weight and intolerance of light
continue; face flushed; pulse 84.
11th. Pain of head returned; no sleep; delirium; pulse 96; tongue brown
and dry.
13th. Pain of head and dullness and heaviness of eyes increased; pulse
84; abdomen tender.
14th. Nearly insensible; pulse 90; abdomen tender, swollen, and hard.
15th. Last evening coma increased; respiration became hurried and
laborious; great prostration; expired this morning.
_Head._ Membranes highly vascular; a large quantity of coagulable lymph
effused at base of the brain. _Thorax._ Mucous membrane of bronchi
highly vascular; substance of lungs gorged with blood. _Abdomen._ On
mucous membrane of stomach several patches of a dark red colour; mucous
membrane of intestines pretty natural. [Spleen studded with soft
tubercles of various sizes, some of which contained a cheesy matter;
others a puriform fluid; the liver contained a few tubercles of the same
nature but smaller.]
CASE XXVIII.
CHARLOTTE CLARKE, æt. 18, servant. Admitted on 3d day of scarlet fever;
throat sore; deglutition painful; no pain of chest; some cough; pain of
head severe; much pain of limbs; mind distinct; tolerable sleep; no
tenderness of abdomen; skin warm, covered with scarlet eruption; tongue
characteristic; much thirst; no stool for three days; pulse 126, of good
power; V. S. ad ℥xvj.
4th. Blood inflamed; throat continues sore; pain of head gone; pulse
130. Hirud. xij. gutt.
5th. Throat unrelieved; deglutition very painful; no pain of head; pulse
110. Rep. Hirud. x.
6th. Throat nearly well; pulse 116.
16th. Had become convalescent; yesterday evening felt scarcely so well;
during the night extremely restless, with much noisy delirium; at
present quite prostrate; pulse 117, not weak; respiration hurried;
abdomen tender; tongue quite dry; four stools of green colour, all
passed in bed; erysipelas on right temple.
17th. Lies quite prostrate; insensible; constant delirium with unceasing
moaning; muscular tremor; all the stools passed in bed; pulse 126. Died
following morning.
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