Manual of pathology containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases. Together with an exposition of the different methods of examination, applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen ... / translated, with notes and additions, by Jones Quain.

  • Martinet, L. (Louis), 1795-1875.
Date:
1826
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Credit: Manual of pathology containing the symptoms, diagnosis, and morbid characters of diseases. Together with an exposition of the different methods of examination, applicable to affections of the head, chest, and abdomen ... / translated, with notes and additions, by Jones Quain. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    YELLOW FEVER. ■299 cut fevers we have just described. Typhus, in its first stage, is characterized by the symptoms of the inflammatory, bilious, or mucous fevers, and in its second, by those of the adynamic or ataxic ; it is very often epidemic, and the principal phenomena are stupor, vertigo, petechim, constant confusion of the nervous functions, and a great tendency to a fatal termination. 870. AnutomicGl Characters.—These vary very much ; the viscera of the head, thorax, or abdomen, sometimes are seen with all the marks of most acute inflammation, in other cases it seems to have been very slight, ornotracesof any disorganizalion maybe observed, especially where death has occurred very rapidly ; the bodies generally putrefy quickly. YELLOW FEVEK. S71. Symptoms.— A most fatal disease, occurring in hot climates, and running its course in a very short time ; the principal symptoms are, violent headache often confined to the orbitar region, with redness or paleness of the face at its commencement, and soon followed by itchings, nausea, violent thirst, yellow- ness of the skin observed on the temples, the con- junctiva, the sides of the neck, and soon spreads over the whole body ; violent pains in the epigastric region of the abdomen and loins now supervene ; excessive internal burning heat, with coldness of the extremities; vomiting of yellow, then dark matter; urine diminishes, and finally is suppressed ; passive hsemorrhagies occur; local gangrene; syn- cope, hiccup, subsultus tendinum, and gradual sink- ing of the pulse. 872. Anatomical Characters.—General yellowness of the skin, interspersed with blue livid spots ; the muscles soft or contracted ; congestion of blood in the membranes of the brain, and occasionally an effusion of a sanguinolent serum is found at the base of the brain and along the spine; red, livid, or