A case of foot and mouth disease in the human subject / by John Glaister.

  • Glaister, John, 1856-1932.
Date:
[1896?]
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Credit: A case of foot and mouth disease in the human subject / by John Glaister. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A CASE OF FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE IN THE HUMAN SUBJECT. In view of the increased attention which is being paid in these days to the diseases of the lower animals which are communicable to man the following notes respecting an attack of the above disease in the human subject will not prove uninteresting to the readers of The Lancet. Such cases are comparatively rare, and by reason of their rarity ought to be carefully recorded when encountered. The literature, too, of the afiEection is by no means copious, although it is suCaciently large to prove what is now un- questioned—that it is a disease which under certain conditions is communicable from the lower animals to man, while it leaves op^n to doubt its communicability from man to man. The facts of the case which came under my observation were as follows. In December of last year I was asked to see a woman aged forty-four years. She was a person who usually enjoyed vigorous health. Her symptoms of illness at that visit were the following: She had a history of a rigor, a febrile condition (temperature 102° F.), a dry, furred tongue, anorexia, con- siderable thirst, and a general feeling of soreness of the muscles of the trunk and limbs. The room in which she lay was darkened on account of conjunctivitis of both eyes causing her to be unable to bear the light. In addition, she suffered from coryza to a slight degree and from a trifling cough. On the face and neck there was the faintest appear- ance of a rash, which looked not unlike the initial stage of the eruption of measles. In short, all her symptoms pointed to an attack of ordinary measles, which, however, she assured me she had had upon a former occasion. Next day the conjunctivitis had considerably increased and the conjunctivae were beginning to assume a tumid appearance ; the coryza also had increased and the nasal mucous membrane was also somewhat swollen. She complained of tenderness upon micturition. The appearance of rash on the face and neck had now nearly cleared off. The temperature was now 102'6°. She had had a sleepless night, and she was