Infectious disease / by R.C.R. Jordan.

  • Jordan, Robert C.R.
Date:
1882
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Credit: Infectious disease / by R.C.R. Jordan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The earliest sequela, if indeed it can be called a sequela, for in some cases it seems to be a direct continuation of the malady, is a rapidly increasing swelling of the neck, usually beginning just beneath the parotid, near the angle of the jaw, and often at first confined to one side. There is much that resembles pyaemia in the mode in which these attacks commence ; often the case, though generally a severe one, seems going on favourably, when, about the middle or close of the second week, the temperature rises greatly, and at the same time a shining swelling becomes visible in the neck ; such a sign is always of grave import, and augurs badly for the future of the patient; however favourable the symptoms were before, the case now assumes the most malignant aspect. This primary sequence is much more common in some epidemics than Others, and was notably so in Birmingham during the fatal years of 1873 and 1874. Sometimes the symptoms, dangerous from the first, have never subsided, and the scarlet fever seems, as it were, to merge into this fresh invasion; at others, there is a distinct interval of remission, and the second attack comes on as a sequela, generally EKXEE MR .il'IWIIMVilHi _.. -.'IfflfillilUIIIKMIIIII HNFJHH'»rdllllllll llJfi'll I' hhuhiiii 'aiiifiiiiirimnfj UIIHIIUHH IH HlfHH I| iiiiflieiniiiuiiaiitiiieijH HHHHimHHIHHBHHHH Temperature Chart of a Case of Secondary Neck Swelling ending Favourably. The Swelling Commenced at the Beginning of the 3RD Week. during the course of the second or beginning of the third week; the neck then begins to swell, the throat