Medical report of the House of Recovery and Fever Hospital, Cork-Street, Dublin, for two years, from 1st of January, 1844, to 31st of December, 1845 / by George A. Kennedy.

  • Cork Fever Hospital (Dublin, Ireland)
Date:
1846
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Credit: Medical report of the House of Recovery and Fever Hospital, Cork-Street, Dublin, for two years, from 1st of January, 1844, to 31st of December, 1845 / by George A. Kennedy. 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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    with this improvement, a favorable issue was not to be expected. A male aged 45, shoemaker, brother to the above, was admitted on 14th June in the low typhoid form of fever: he was uncertain as to the date of his illness, but attributed it to depression of mind caused by the death of his sister: the symptoms varied but little from the preceding case: he died on the third day after his ad- mission into hospital. A female aged 14, daughter of the first case, also died on the fourth day after admission; she also attributed her illness to the depression of mind caused by the death of her mother. In this case the head symptoms were most severe, with a perfectly clear eye and clean tongue, accompanied by numerous dun coloured petec- chise. She died on the 10th day of fever. The fourth was the case of a boy aged 12, admitted in June, 1844. On the 9th he felt chilly on his return home from bathing; on 11th, at breakfast, he let the tea- kettle fall from his hand, which was the first decided in- dication of his illness; from this moment he took to his bed and a most severe form of typhus set in, accompa- nied by urgent head symptoms; petecchiag; and followed by a tedious convalescence. He was dismissed on the 28th of July. 4 It is not a little remarkable that the above cases were admitted from the same street, although not from the same house. Another family of the name of Fox, con- sisting of twelve individuals, were admitted in succession in the latter part of 1845, labouring under typhus; the disease commencing with the youngest child; then the mother; last of all the father, who had the worst symp- toms and longest convalescence: all however eventually recovered. Another case of Typhus fever succeeding despondency and great depression of spirits occurred in a female, aged 17, of a full habit, florid complexion; admitted 2nd