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

  • Lyons, R. T.
Date:
1872
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    of Hansi the disease was more fatal. Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Calcutta, vol. v. 1830. In the year 1830, a few cases of relapsing fever occurred amongst the European soldiers at Bellary. In the India Journal of Medical and Physical Science, for March, 1841, p. 261, Dr. Henderson gives an account of fifteen cases of remittent fever, in which the patients were suddenly attacked with fever, followed by vomiting, great restlessness, and in some instances with yellowness of the skin. In the same year, 400 native toops in Caudeish marched from MalHgaum against some tribes in the neighbouring hilly country during tlie most unhealthy season; only 120 came back; of five officers, one died and three left on sick furlough. Many of the horses also suffered from distiuct hot and cold fits of fever, and ten died out of about one hundred. Transactions of the Medical and Physical Society of Bombay, no. iv., for 1841. 1833. In the year 1833, an epidemic occuiTed in Calcutta. Twinino- -^vrites: A considerable number of catarrhal fevers o°cctirred in adults, in which affections of the mucous membrane of the throat were severe, occasioniag much hoarseness, and in some cases suppression of the voice; there was also pain and stiffness in the muscles of the neck, with some oppression of the chest; and several of these patients had a red efflorescence over the whole skiu, on the second or third day of the fever. On the 22nd Mny of this year, a great gale and inundation occurred between OaLciitta and the sea, whereby numbers of the inhabitants and cattle were destroyed, the cultivation ruined, and exl^onsive dis- tricts rendered unhealthy. A succession of patients irom the ships that had been exposed or wrecked ni the coiirse ot the gale, crowded the wards of tlie Presidency General Hosjital for many montlis. Those T.aiients suRcred from repeated relapses of fever. When the rainy season camo on, the gradual approach of the formidable rem.ttcn tever -ave waruinr. o£ wliat was going t<, liapi.en m Calcutta.