_Head._ Dura mater along the course of the longitudinal sinus very
adherent to the arachnoid; arachnoid and pia mater white and opake;
surface and substance of brain highly vascular; surface of cerebellum
vascular; substance healthy; pituitary gland suppurating; more fluid
than natural in the ventricles; an ounce at the base. _Thorax._ Mucous
membrane of bronchi highly inflamed; bronchial tubes filled with mucus
mixed with pus; [pleura costalis of right side vascular; slight effusion
into right pleural cavity, and into parenchyma of right lung; lower lobe
much inflamed; pleuræ of left side adherent; that covering left side of
diaphragm much inflamed; substance of left lung partly inflamed, partly
consolidated.] _Abdomen._ Mucous membrane of small intestines inflamed;
in that of ilium numerous large, raised ulcers; [liver adherent by
several unnatural connexions to diaphragm, spleen and transverse arch of
colon, but its substance was healthy; appendix vermiformis likewise
adherent to abdominal peritoneum;] head of pancreas enlarged; [internal
inguinal glands much enlarged, and some of them impacted with calcareous
matter;] other viscera healthy.
CASE CIX.
MR. W——, æt. 50. The progress of this case having been observed with
great care from the commencement to the termination of the disease, and
affording an excellent illustration of the insidious manner in which the
mixed form of fever sometimes attacks, and of the silent but rapid
progress it makes without exciting alarm, until, at last, symptoms the
most formidable, and which, to those who are not acquainted with the
nature of the malady, appear to be most sudden, supervene, it may be
useful to give a detailed account of it.
This gentleman had been out of health six months previously to the
present attack of fever: he had been observed to be gradually losing
flesh, and fading; yet he laboured under no complaint that could be
ascertained, excepting that his appetite failed; that he could digest
well no kind of food; that he was badly nourished and, therefore, weaker
in body and less vigorous in mind than usual.
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