10th. Says he is quite free from pain everywhere; cough again increased;
respirations 50; pulse 110, not intermittent; delirium.
11th. Respirations 60; no sleep; great restlessness; pulse 108,
intermittent.
14th. Perfectly insensible; scarcely to be retained in bed; respiration
extremely quick; pulse not to be counted. Died.
_Thorax._ Mucous membrane of bronchi highly vascular; [left lung
adherent to parieties of chest by a layer of coagulable lymph nearly an
inch in thickness; substance of lung completely hepatized; pericardium
exceedingly thickened throughout, and universally adherent to the heart;
heart itself soft and flabby; inner coat of aorta of reddish brown
colour.] _Head._ Vessels of pia mater exceedingly turgid; effusion
beneath it and the arachnoid; substance of brain very much softened.
_Abdomen._ Mucous membrane of ilium vascular.
III. CASES IN ILLUSTRATION OF THE MORBID CHANGES WHICH TAKE PLACE WITHIN
THE ABDOMEN; OR ABDOMINAL CASES.
CASE LXI.
THOMAS HINDMARSH, æt. 26. Admitted on the 10th day of fever: too
indistinct to give any account of previous symptoms; at present abdomen
tender; tongue loaded and dry; bowels purged; mind confused; very deaf;
eyes red and suffused; pulse 108, firm.
11th. Abdomen less tender; five stools; insensibility increased; pulse
104.
12th. Abdomen a little tender; tongue quite dry; three stools in bed;
noisy delirium; eyes wild and staring; pulse 108.
13th. Tongue no longer to be protruded; no stool; scarcely at all
sensible; eye-lids half closed; pulse 96, firm.
21st. Abdominal and cerebral symptoms little changed; sensible of some
pain in chest; cough; dyspnœa; pulse 108.
23d. Abdomen still tender, and now become tympanitic; four stools in
bed; perfectly insensible; constant muttering delirium; muscular tremor;
large slough on sacrum; pulse 116.
25th. Died.
_Abdomen._ Peritoneal coat of intestines in general vascular; mucous
coat of small intestines highly vascular, and indicated approaching
ulceration. _Head._ Not examined. _Thorax._ [Pleuræ of both sides
adherent throughout; substance of both lungs healthy; slight effusion of
serum into pericardium.]
CASE LXII.
ISAAC GREY, æt. 30. Admitted on 22d day of fever; no account to be
obtained of the previous symptoms; at present the abdomen in general is
exceedingly tender on pressure, but especially the epigastrium; tongue
brown, dry in centre, moist at edges; very tremulous; scarcely at all
sensible, yet seems very apprehensive, almost constantly muttering and
crying; face flushed; eyes wild; skin speckled with petechiæ; pulse 112.
23d. Abdomen still very tender; says he is without pain; four stools;
delirium; muscular tremor; pulse 100, feeble.
24th. In the early part of last evening became violently delirious, and
was extremely restless, constantly tossing his arms about, and throwing
off the bed-clothes. Died.
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