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

  • Lyons, R. T.
Date:
1872
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    conrse to the first attack, but generally milder; the dura- tion of the relapse rarely exceeds four or five days; some- times a second relapse, or even a seventh relapse. The mortality bears a direct ratio to the circumstances of the sick, being small in the better classes, and in the poor who receive care and attention; but great under circumstances of neglect. Death due to suppression of urine and coma, and rarely to syncope ; often to some serious complication. After death no specific lesion, but usually enlargement of the Hver and spleen. The characteristic features of the disease are, fever ot a few days' duration, attended by vomitmg, often jaundice, enlargement or tenderness of the liver or spleen, or of both, generally constipation, headache, and pains of the body and limbs, considerable debility, followed by an apyretic mteryal of a few days, with the recurrence of the fever, which endures for a few days, and is followed by a tedious con- valescence. No anatomical lesion, but the liver or spleen is generally enlarged. SECTION II. NOMENCLATUEE. The foUowing are some of the designations whi^ have been applied to relapsing fever: bihous fever Hunter, 1804: three days' fever, CaveU, 1824; rheumatic fever, Robinson, 1825; bronchitic fever of infants and young children, Adams, 1828; remittent fever of the Bengal rainy season. Twining, 1832; jungle fever, McDonell, 1833 Byre, 1847; epidemic rheumatic fever, Iwming, 1835', and old authors; epidemic congestive fever, Mac- Nab 1836: epidemic remittent fever. Spencer, 18db; catarrhal fever and gastro-hepatic fever, f - H- Hunter 1886; bihous remittent fever, Shirrefi-, 1837, and old authors ; bilious intermittent and remittent ^Jrah^^^ 1839 ; yellow remittent fever, John Murray, 1839 . bihous intermittent fever, H. J. Carter, 1843 ; peculiar form of eruptive fever, Henry Goodeve, 1844; fever like the Scotch