THOMAS CONOLLY, æt. 58, labourer. Admitted on 7th day of fever: severe
pain of head early in the attack which has continued without
intermission, accompanied with vertigo; scarcely any sleep; face
flushed; no uneasiness of chest; abdomen not tender; no stool for four
days; tongue loaded and dry; pulse 96, weak.
8th. Less pain of head; no improvement in other symptoms; pulse 92.
9th. Scarcely any pain of head; no sleep; delirium; muscular tremor;
tongue brown and dry; pulse 111.
10th. Pain quite gone; more insensible; constant talkative delirium;
colour of cheek dusky, almost livid; respiration hurried; stools and
urine in bed; pulse 112, feeble.
11th. Died.
_Head._ Membranes vascular; arachnoid thickened and opake; substance of
brain highly vascular and preternaturally firm; some fluid beneath
membranes and in ventricles. _Thorax._ [Pleuræ adherent;] lungs gorged
with blood. _Abdomen._ Liver and spleen exceedingly softened, readily
breaking down beneath the finger.
CASE XLI.
MARY TIFFIN, æt. 25, servant. Perfectly insensible: no account can be
obtained of history or duration of disease: abdomen tender; tongue
loaded, moist; pulse 99.
2d day after admission scarcely any sleep; delirium; muscular tremor.
3d. Insensibility continues; constant delirium; has passed neither stool
nor urine; latter drawn off by catheter; pulse 124, feeble and
fluttering. Died next morning.
_Head._ Dura mater and arachnoid natural; pia mater vascular; substance
of brain highly vascular and unusually firm; cerebellum soft; effusion
beneath arachnoid and at base. _Thorax._ [Substance of both lungs filled
with miliary tubercles.] _Abdomen._ [Liver studded with tubercles,
similar to those of the lungs; spleen full of the same kind of
tubercles, excepting that they were larger, and some of them were
suppurating;] pancreas extremely firm.
CASE XLII.
MARY POULSTON, æt. 50. No account to be obtained of duration of disease:
lies quite insensible and prostrate; frequent jactitation of the arms;
face flushed; respiration stertorous; cheeks alternately expanding and
collapsing during inspiration and expiration; tongue not to be
protruded; stools and urine in bed; pulse 138, weak, and easily
compressed.
2d. Died.
_Head._ Dura mater vascular; arachnoid thickened and opake; substance of
brain highly vascular and firm. _Thorax._ All the viscera perfectly
healthy. _Abdomen._ Mucous membrane of intestines vascular, without
ulceration; mesentery inflamed; [contained a calcareous deposit of an
oval shape included in a cyst.]
CASE XLIII.
WILLIAM ASHLEY, æt. 65, messenger. Admitted on 4th day of fever: slight
occasional head-ache; mind distinct; scarcely any sleep; face flushed;
no uneasiness of chest or abdomen; slight cough; pulse 81.
5th. Slight head-ache; little sleep; pulse 82.
6th. Pain of head gone; pulse 90.
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