Cases of nerve-disorder : recorded with reference to the probable operation of malaria as a cause / by C. Handfield Jones.

  • Jones, C. Handfield (Charles Handfield), 1819-1890
Date:
1856
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Credit: Cases of nerve-disorder : recorded with reference to the probable operation of malaria as a cause / by C. Handfield Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ceased about two months ago. She is of light complexion, blue eyes, light hair; the aspect of her face is doughy. She complains most of excessive pain in right foot and shoulder, pain in head and sickness, with a good deal of perspiration. The pain in the foot, when most severe, causes nauseous taste and feeling. Tongue red at apex, coated at back and sides, tremulous; pulse 90, small; bowels constipated; urine copious. The heart’s sounds are normal; the lungs appear healthy. Sumat calomel, gr. iij hora somni, et haustum sennas eras mane. Potassii iodid. gr. j; ammonias carb. gr. iij ; decocti cinch. §j. M. Fiat haustus ter die sumendus. July 17th. She has been sick during the night; has vomited yellow acrid matter. She has been shivering, and had continual heats and chills. The bowels have been open once. July 18th. Pain in prmcordia; heats and chills, suc¬ ceeded by perspirations, during the night. July 19th. Less sweating; recurrence of pain in prae- cordia, and some in abdomen ; tongue not clean. July 23rd. She complains of palpitation, pains in loins, and everywhere. She has been retching constantly, but does not eject anything. Cardiac and pulmonary sounds normal. July 27th. Slight ejection of blood from the mouth oc¬ curred last night. After this date, I did not see her again till August 15th, when she gave me the following account. She had been bringing up blood every day since the last date. It came up with a little short cough, not with sickness, for the first two weeks, to the amount of about a teacupful a day. She used to begin at 2 p.m. most days, and continue all the evening and much of the night, bringing up the blood in mouthfuls. The blood I saw this day was small in quantity, blackish, acid, and mixed with a little mucus. Her food had not digested very well for some time; she complained of much sinking and faint sensation at the epigastrium, where I