A treatise on relapsing or famine fever / by R.T. Lyons.

  • Lyons, R. T.
Date:
1872
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    IStli of tlie month (probably January, 1871). Here the fatal cases almost invariably showed, more or less, the symptoms of the typho-pneumonic complication. Amongst the native troops, the 15th Regiment sufiTered the most. The regiment had continued healthy until the beo'innino- of September, when fever began, and mcreased so'^rapidly, that by the end of the month 395 men were reported as the number of sick in hospital, besides forty convalescents. At least half of the men attacked ^'ith fever suffered also from enlargement of the spleen; and a o-reat many cases were further complicated by other grave diseases, such as jaundice, dysentery, diarrhoea, and, later in the season, pneumonia of a low, typhoid character Some of the cases were attended with watery purging and vomiting, cold skin, loss of pulse, and collapse as deep as that of cholera. In other cases, rapid head symptoms supervened, and three men died from sudden efiusion on the brain and medulla. In some cases the cornea ulcer- ated, the surface appearing to melt away The cases com- plicated with typho-pneumonia proved fatal in the tour final months of the year, out of an average strength ot Db/ fio-htino- men, there were 519 cases of tever of the above description. The number of deaths was nineteen, chieiiy due to fever, but some to other diseases said to be mostly ^^The epidemic in the 36th Regiment N.I., also stationed at Peshiwur, is thus described by Dr. Downie, the medi- f^nl officer Of 1511 cases of ague and remittent tever fof which'two became continued), five died, or 33 per cent to treated In many of the cases of ague, severe and cop ous Mious vomiting, and, in not a few, janndice was a Somh ent symptom. In the earlier part of the sickly sea- ^ f riot st4c was the best mivrked, the cold least, and ^ o°AS,: «». oi^n .,*„J Late,. UK. cold LTy '; > ! S 1° tor appealed to be ve,,y closely allied to th7 ormor, and to be cansod b, a kmd,.d po.so,, .^^^^^^^^^^ differeut clfeel of tbe same CEdema of ^e e=tt.e™ les occurred in a few cases, and appeared to be the result oi