On the glanders in the human subject / By John Elliotson.

  • Elliotson, John, 1791-1868.
Date:
1830
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the glanders in the human subject / By John Elliotson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    but smaller, took place on the arms, legs, thighs and sacrum; all, like it, hard, insensible, and of a chocolate colour, and at first a slightly discoloured puffiness only, but becoming, after twelve or fifteen hours, of a deep Vermillion, and soon of a dark brown ; the integuments growing thick and callous, slightly cracking, and exuding a thin and acrid sanies. One precisely similar, and of large size, appeared upon the left temple, and the eye-lids became tumefied. “ The right nostril was gummed with an inspissated discharge.” The “posterior fauces ” were much inflamed, and nearly of a purple hue. On the 28th, several “ warty pus- tules ”, acquiring about the size of a pea, arose high above the skin, in various situations around each of the tumefactions, particularly numerous and large over the right side of the neck and shoulders, and on the inside of the arms and thighs, and were found after death to be filled “ with a violet-coloured inspissated lymph.” The thirst was always great, the tongue foul and parched : the pulse from 88 to 96, full, but easily compressed : the blood, abstracted at the com- mencement, buffed, but much attenuated ; the urinary and alvine excretions “ always natural in every respect.” “The copious exhibition of tonics and antiseptics” had not the slightest effect: and at the date last mentioned,—the 28th, many of the tumors, particularly that upon the shoulder, were rapidly running into gangrene ; the pulse was scarcely perceptible, the surface bathed with a cold, clammy sweat; imperfect stupor, and mild