13th. Still more sensible; complains of giddiness; five stools; tongue
beginning to clean.
20th. Had been gradually improving since last report, and the pulse had
fallen to 80; during last night he became extremely restless, with much
delirium; mind now confused; face of a purple colour; tongue red and
glossy; three stools; pulse 120.
21st. Delirium; almost constant moaning; cheeks of purple colour; tongue
brown and glossy; pulse 130, but so indistinct that it can scarcely be
counted; lies extremely prostrate.
22d. Erysipelas of face, extending down the neck; some cough; abdomen
again tender; three copious dark-coloured stools; pulse 130. Died
following day.
_Head._ Scalp loaded with an unusual quantity of blood; the vessels of
all the membranes of the brain exceedingly turgid; a large coagulum of
blood between the dura mater and the arachnoid; substance of the brain
exceedingly soft; an ounce and a half of bloody fluid at the base of the
skull. _Thorax._ Mucous membrane of bronchi extremely vascular;
substance of lungs somewhat condensed and very much gorged; [two ounces
of serum in each pleural cavity.] _Abdomen._ Mucous membrane of ilium
much thickened, softened, and injected, exhibiting a few points of
incipient ulceration; [mucous membrane of bladder thickened and
inflamed; peritoneum lining the pelvis vascular;] other viscera healthy.
CASE XCIV.
JAMES ROBINSON, æt. 25. Admitted on the 8th day of relapse: at present
mind confused; acknowledges no pain in head, chest, or abdomen; tongue
not much loaded, moist; thirst; pulse 60, weak.
9th. No pain; some sleep; occasional delirium; two stools; pulse 78.
10th. Mind dull and heavy; returns no answer when spoken to; pulse the
same.
17th. Little change until to-day; the entire body is now covered with an
efflorescence, consisting of minute papulæ, of a vivid red colour; mind
dull and confused; pulse 120. Died next day.
_Head._ An old fracture over that part of the coronal suture which joins
the parietal bone, seems to have left the brain unaffected; inner
surface of skull perfectly smooth; both membranes and substance of the
brain highly inflamed; pituitary gland suppurated; cerebellum natural.
_Thorax._ [Left lung contained many tubercles in the stage of
suppuration; the apex, which was full of tubercles, adhered to costal
pleura; right side healthy; pericardium contained two ounces of bloody
serum; serous lining of auricles and ventricles of heart highly vascular
and of dark red colour; valves of aorta and of auricles extremely dark;]
no account recorded of the state of the mucous membrane of the bronchi.
_Abdomen._ Omentum vascular; intestines throughout of dark red colour;
all their coats every where exceedingly softened, the peritoneal peeling
off with ease from the muscular; the mucous inflamed, not ulcerated; the
mucous membrane of the stomach vascular; a considerable portion of the
jejunum intussuscepted; other viscera healthy.
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