36th. Respiration hurried; tongue brown, dry, and cracked; lips and
teeth sordid; four stools, mixed with lumps of coagulated blood, partly
passed in bed. Died in evening.
_Abdomen._ Mucous membrane of ilium and cæcum in part highly vascular
and much thickened, in part ulcerated; pancreas indurated; other viscera
healthy. _Thorax._ Epiglottis vascular and thickened; mucous membrane of
arytænoid cartilages ulcerated; mucous membrane of trachea highly
vascular; [pleuræ of both sides adherent; right lung filled with
tubercles; bronchial glands enlarged.] _Head._ Not examined.
CASE LXXXIV.
CHARLES CROSSLEY, æt. 21. Admitted on the 15th day of fever, which came
on with the ordinary symptoms: at present, tenderness of the
epigastrium, and over the whole abdomen; tongue brown, cracked and
tremulous; bowels purged; scarcely any pain of head; mind indistinct;
expression of eyes wild; slight cough; pulse 40, soft.
16th. After six leeches had been applied to the epigastrium the
tenderness was much diminished: says he has now no pain any where; two
stools; expression of countenance the same; pulse 96.
17th. Abdomen has become swollen and hard, not tender on firm pressure;
five stools; tongue unchanged; respiration hurried and noisy; no sleep;
delirium; face pallid; eyes wild and rolling; pulse 100.
16th. Abdomen hard, especially in hepatic region; slightly tender;
vomiting; two stools, mixed with blood; extremities cold.
19th. Abdomen hard, not tender; two copious stools, consisting almost
entirely of blood; tongue the same; pulse 96.
20th. One stool without any feculent matter, consisting entirely of
blood; delirium; muscular tremor.
23d. No stool for two days; having taken two drachms of castor oil, he
had two copious evacuations of very dark colour, mixed with blood;
abdomen more soft, not tender; tongue cracked in the centre, more clean
and moist at edges; cough; pulse 108, soft.
35th. From the morning of last report the hæmorrhage disappeared, sleep
and sensibility returned, the tongue became more clean and moist, the
strength improved, the appetite became keen: he was put upon low diet,
and was allowed three ounces of meat daily and four ounces of wine: he
appeared to be so much recovered, that it was thought he could bear this
liberal allowance; but, immediately on this change of diet, the skin
became hot, the cough returned, he had six stools without medicine, the
delirium re-appeared at night, and the pulse rose to 100; there was not
the slightest pain, either of the head or of the abdomen.
36th. Tongue again brown and dry; three stools; no sleep; much
restlessness; delirium; pulse 108, firm; skin extremely hot.
43d. Stools and urine in bed; delirium; muscular tremor; subsultus
tendinum; pulse 104.
46th. Sloughs have formed on both hips and an abscess in the right
groin.
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