23d. Pains of limbs returned; slept ill; tongue loaded at root; pulse
110.
24th. Pains diminished; pulse 100; tongue still furred; skin warm.
26th. Pains gone; skin cool and moist; tongue the same; two stools;
pulse 100.
28th. Tongue more clean; skin warm; pulse 76.
35th. Convalescent. Inf. Case. c. Senna bis.
41st. Dismissed cured.
CASE CXII.
ELEANOR WELBY, æt. 21, servant. Attacked four days ago with chilliness,
shivering and pain of head. At present, pain of head gone; mind
distinct; little or no sleep; eyes suffused and injected; no uneasiness
of chest nor cough; throat sore, with difficult deglutition; tenderness
of abdomen on pressure; tongue loaded on body with white fur, extremely
red at edges and tip; lips and teeth sordid; some thirst; bowels
regular; pulse 129, of good strength, yet easily compressed;
efflorescence of skin of dark red colour, approaching to a dusky hue.
V.S. ad xvj. Hirud. viij. gutturi. Ol. Ricini, ʒiij. quam primum. Mist.
Acid. pro potu.
6th. No uneasiness of head; slept ill; eyes suffused and injected; face
swollen; still complains of soreness of throat, which is undiminished;
tongue moist; teeth sordid; lips sordid and cracked; less thirst; three
stools; pulse 120, firm; blood very sizy and cupped. Rep. V.S. ad ℥xiij.
et Hirudines viij. gutturi. Pt. Med.
7th. Expression of countenance more natural; face less swollen; more
sleep; throat greatly relieved; deglutition quite easy; no tenderness of
abdomen on full pressure; tongue more clean and moist; lips and teeth
less sordid; pulse 111; eruption less distinct. Haustus Sennæ Sal. c. m.
8th. No uneasiness of head, throat, or abdomen; sleep natural; tongue
beginning to clean, much less red; pulse 114; skin exfoliating.
9th. Convalescent.
14th. Has been gradually gaining strength and is now quite well.
Dismissed cured.
CASE CXIII.
MARY JONES, æt. 33, married. Three days ago attacked with shivering,
succeeded by glows of heat, severe pain in the back and lower
extremities, with much head-ache. At present, pain of head severe,
especially over the forehead; mind distinct; scarcely any sleep; no
uneasiness of chest; some cough; abdomen tender on pressure; tongue not
much loaded; some thirst; no appetite; one stool; pulse 108, of some
power.—V.S. ad ℥xvj. Ol. Ricini, ʒiij. q. p. Mist. Acid. pro potu.
Hora 3tia, p. m. Pain of head diminished since the bleeding, but by no
means removed; much pain of back; some of abdomen; pulse 112, strong,
full, sharp, and not easily compressed. Blood with firm and thick buff.
Rep. V.S. ad ℥xvj. statim. Pulv. Aper. Mit. h. s.
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