Malignant pustule ; Acute farcy or glanders in the human subject ; Cases of muscular anaesthesia? / by Alfred Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, Alfred, 1825-
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[1874]
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Credit: Malignant pustule ; Acute farcy or glanders in the human subject ; Cases of muscular anaesthesia? / by Alfred Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1855. It itched very much, and she thought she must haV6 poisoned it with some lip salve. The lower lip was like a com- mencing carbuncle, hard and brawny, and upon it there was a small vesicle. There was a minute quantity of ichorous dis- charge from it. On the 8th the eyes closed from oedema; on the 9th the power of speech was lost, and she died on the evening of the 10th, eight days after the first sign of the disease appeared, and four days after treatment commenced. The hard, brawny, wide-open, expressionless, motionless lips, which were almost black, rendering painfully hideous a beautiful and highly popular girl. The Fourth Case occurred in the practice of my friend, Mr. Whitling, in November, 1862, in the person of a young lady from the West Indies, who had been placed by her parents at a first-class ladies’ school at Croydon, about a year before her illness. She had the characteristic swelling of the lip, with continuous itching, on Nov. 14th. The swelling alarmed the mistress on the 17th, and my friend prescribed for her. On the 18th I saw her with Mr. Whitling: the disease was then marked and unmistakable. She was unable to swallow on the 19th, and she died on the 20th—six days after the itching first began to trouble her. The whole face was livid, and almost as black as that of a negro, having extra thick lips: she had no discharge from their surfaces ; and she appeared to retain her consciousness until the last. The Fifth Case is one to which I will more directly draw your attention, for it reached a stage which the others did not attain to. A lady, M. T. (set. 36), born in India, educated in England, returned to the East; married, and came home four years ago to educate her family of eight children, and recruit her own health, which had been lowered by menorrhagiaH She was however quite well at the beginning of the year. Late in the month of January she had a catarrh, and on Feb. 4th, her lower lip became stiff and uncomfortable, witli a troublesome itching; swelling more on the 5th, and on the 6th I saw her. The lip was then enlarged to double the natural size; it was red and hot; it felt hard, bra'wny; there was a dark herpetic-like spot on the labial surface. It had the appearance of, and felt like, a carbuncle ; it was restricted