Congestive fever : syn. pernicious fever, typhus petechialis, spotte [sic] fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, brain fever / by T.H. Squire.

  • Squire, T. H.
Date:
[1858]
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Credit: Congestive fever : syn. pernicious fever, typhus petechialis, spotte [sic] fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, brain fever / by T.H. Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Informed melj orders d ■ the in t: $ht, a ime for . lient nd that Drs. Purdy and Flood had been r< to in- I his bedside Immediately Onr< cl 1 found Dr. Flood already In attendance, and Dr. i'unly arrived abonl the same time with mj und the man quite cold, especially t! mitiesj the breathing ed, the pulse small and feeble; the pupils dilate the Whole surface of the body covered with raisii spots, varying from the size of a pin's head to that of a pea, or la W(> adopted a decidedly stimulating plan ol ent, visited him frequently, and did everything for him i' been done, but his pulse continm until all hope of recovery vanish* ning, making a period of forty-eight hours from tl him. The spots continued distinct, and until he died. Case 12. Reported by Dr. Tenny. C. W. Cl years, living In the (lrsi ward, Elmira 1 was called I him at b1x o'clock P. M.j March twelve, andfound himlatx under a bill, and vomiting. His pul a and about one hundred per minute. He had been Buffering from the chill fof four hours when 1 Bawhim. I ascertained that,at seven o'clock in the morning,he had fallen through Ice into the canal, getting himself very wet, and that he rode twelve miles after- wards, before ch clothes. I made use of h ttiona externally, and other means calculate >re the heat ol the body. An hour and a half afterwards 1 called again, and found him no better; great thirst; throwing himself about the bed; V(iniitl, heat alternating with chillsj pulse one hun- dred and thirtv. s of the limbs iin In the hi] bark; these were his chief symptoms. I stayed with him most ol the night, giving brandy and laudanum, to quiet his extreme No. 85.] 11