11th. Less sensible: drowsy; delirium; three stools.
12th. Insensibility increased; drowsiness approaching to coma; cheeks
dusky; tongue with dark brown crust, dry; stools in bed; pulse 102,
weak.
16th. Abdomen tender; tongue not to be protruded; three stools all in
bed; pulse 130, extremely weak; great prostration.
17th. Countenance sunk; respiration short and hurried; four stools; more
prostrate.
18th. No change excepting that the prostration is still greater. Died.
_Abdomen._ Mucous membrane of ilium and cæcum extremely vascular, and
contained several small ulcers, some of which were merely the abraded
points of enlarged mucous glands; other glands in the neighbourhood much
enlarged but not ulcerated; mesenteric glands very much enlarged; liver
mottled; spleen larger than natural; pancreas indurated. _Head._
Arachnoid highly vascular; substance of brain natural; gelatinous
effusion between the arachnoid and pia mater; half an ounce of serum at
base. _Thorax._ Viscera healthy.
CASE LXV.
JAMES GANNICOTT, æt. 8. Duration and progress of disease unknown;
abdomen tender; lips and tongue sordid; bowels purged; comatose; pupils
dilated, but sensible to light; expression of eyes dull and vacant;
pulse 125.
2d day after admission. Abdomen no longer tender; three stools;
insensibility continues; frequent screaming; pulse 116.
3d. Perfectly insensible; all nourishment refused; stools and urine in
bed; pulse 120. Died next morning.
_Abdomen._ Peritoneal coat of ilium vascular; its mucous coat contained
numerous ulcers which varied much in size; but all of them were raised
above the surface and defined and regular in their margins; mucous
glands throughout the entire intestine diseased, and many of them in
different stages of disease; some were only enlarged; others enlarged
and inflamed; others ulcerated at the apex; others ulcerated throughout;
so that the largest ulcers appeared to be diseased glands in the last
stage of ulceration; mesenteric glands prodigiously enlarged and hung
over the abdominal vessels like a bunch of grapes of the largest size;
rest of the intestines healthy excepting that they were much contracted
and intussuscepted in several parts. _Head._ Dura mater adherent with
preternatural firmness to the skull; vascular; pia mater highly
vascular; substance of brain vascular and firm; slight effusion between
the membranes. _Thorax._ [Pluræ of right side adherent;] substance of
both lungs healthy.
CASE LXVI.
HENRY TODD, æt. 18. Duration and progress of disease unknown; abdomen
tender on pressure; tongue coated with dirty yellow crust, red at tip;
perfectly insensible; delirium; eyes, glistening; pulse 120, feeble.
2d day after admission. Little change excepting that the coma is more
deep; abdomen less tender; two stools; pulse 124.
3d. Coma undiminished; respiration short, hurried, rattling; stools in
bed; pulse 132; great prostration.
4th. Died.
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