Report of twenty cases of malignant cholera that occured in the seamen's hospital-ship, Dreadnought, between the 8th and 28th of October, 1837 / by George Budd... and George Busk.

  • Budd, George, 1808-1882.
Date:
1838
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Credit: Report of twenty cases of malignant cholera that occured in the seamen's hospital-ship, Dreadnought, between the 8th and 28th of October, 1837 / by George Budd... and George Busk. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pus, and presented numerous ulcerations of its raucous membrane. The spleen was of natural size or smaller than usual, and firm in 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 16; of a light red colour in 5, 7, 8, 16; its colour not noticed in I, 3, 6. It was unusually large in three cases only, II, 14, 17; soft and dark-coloured in 11; soft, and contained a purple creamy fluid, which could be expressed, leaving a white spongy substance in 14; firm and dark-coloured in 17. The appearances noticed in these three cases seem to depend on causes foreign to cholera: the subject of the 11th case was affected with typhus, of the 14th with ague, and that of the 17th was a native of the western coast of Africa. Oi'gans of respiration.—The condition of the lungs varied as the patients died more or less re- motely from the attack. They were found hfealthy, or simply congested, in four of five cases that proved fatal within thirty-six hours; while of six cases, in which the patients lived at least forty-five hours after the attack, four presented pneumonia. In one of tfeese (8), fatal at the end of forty-five hours, the pneumonia was very partial, interlobular, and con- fined to the lower lobe of the right lung; in two, (4, 7,) fatal at the end of 96 and 138 hours re- spectively, the lower lobes of both lungs were found in a state of red hepatisation. In all these cases, the pneumonia was latent; there were no symptoms in- dicating its presence, and, while the patients lived,