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

  • Lyons, R. T.
Date:
1872
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    cMdreii did not escape. Females nnderwenfc the disease in . its severe forms during various periods of pregnancy witli- out any tendency to abortion. The convalescence was tardy, and there was a great tendency to repeated relapses ; pams in the ankles, and dull aching in the joints of the finge s and toes, continued for many weeks after. Tn about a month the patients were able to say that they were quite well Li o-eneral, the disease was of extreme severity, so iar as related to the sufferings of the patient, but of ^™plecl taildness as regards mortality. Many cases were very d, and boreares°emblance to febricula, though ^Je latter Jl- ness is unattended with such severe pains. A tew cases aSea Xnomalous. In one a succession of vesicles occurred ?o^r^twelve days; in another haemorrhoids, with _subacute inanimation oi the liver, and shght jaundice; in a thud ^e^ilious remittent on the ninth day after commence- S wh eh subsided after eleven days, /wmiug heard o S5y a single death, that of a Hindoo, aged fifty, who had no LLalaid. No locality escaped; ^ two tX! or temperament ensured exemption; only from two to hve per S.Tf the inhabitants of Calcutta escaped the '^Zttn, mentions that during .the epicWc ^ friend's do-s contracted the fever, and their eyes became ye lo^ Mr. Cavell has likewise described the same epidemic and he has added a few important P^rticulaxs. He say. that the disease had prevailed before 0^^°^^^^^^^^ '^^^ ductors and ----f«V^^^.^^ came under mI Cavell's ^^--^..^ Jl^ec^^^^ The premonitory symptoms were chiUmess, to j by general pams, stiffness, s^^^^^^^^'f^fJl^^Xan intense eyes, so that opening them was pamful, and a headache, and reddened conjunctiva. Tbe sbn ^^^^^^^ and dry, with an almost unitoimi blush I i,, it exhibited patches of an 1^^^°^^^*°'vesicular, others a papillaxy, and in one or t^^^^^ Z ZMl^ir^g of eruption. There was a disposition ^ bilious matter ; the bowels were usually costive , tno