44th. No return of uneasiness; continues to gain strength.
57th. Since last report has been daily improving, and is now quite well.
Dismissed cured.
CASE X.
SARAH RAVEN, æt. 17. Admitted on the 22d day of fever; no pain of the
abdomen appears to have been complained of from the commencement of the
attack; at present no tenderness on the fullest pressure; some
distention; tongue covered with yellow fur, moist; bowels loose; pulse
110, sharp; only slight pain in the head; more pain in the limbs; mind
dull, confused; deaf.
24th. No pain of abdomen on fullest pressure; tongue the same; only two
stools; pulse 124; voice hoarse, feeble; respiration hurried; skin dark,
almost livid; mind much more confused; delirium.
25th. No material change.
27th. Insensibility increased to coma; features shrunk; one stool passed
in bed; pulse 128; skin livid, cold.
28th. Moribund; died the following day.
On examination after death (see pathology) extensive disease was found
in the intestines, although, if the purging on the day of admission be
excepted, not the slightest indication of it was given during life.
CASE XI.
GEORGE ENGLISH, æt. 25, carpenter. Admitted on the 29th day of fever,
with a great degree of tenderness of the abdomen, extending especially
over the hypogastric region; bowels said to be regular; pulse 90, of
good strength; yet complains much of sense of debility.
30th. Pain of the abdomen continues, especially over the region of the
bladder; urine passed in good quantity and freely; three stools; pulse
84.
32d. Tumour has appeared over the region of the bladder, unattended with
pain; three stools; pulse 76.
33d. Hypogastrium still tumid, but without pain; other symptoms the
same.
43d. No material change until this day, when he was suddenly seized with
exceedingly acute pain in the region of the bladder; extreme tenderness
on pressure; great restlessness, and great anxiety; vomiting of a
yellow-coloured fluid; two stools; pulse 84, extremely feeble.
44th. Died.
These acute symptoms mark the very hour when the event occurred which
caused them.—See Pathology.
IV. SYNOCHUS GRAVIOR WITH MIXED AFFECTION.
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