An essay on the hydrocephalic state of fever / by Thomas Rowan.

  • Rowan, Thomas, 1777 or 1778-
Date:
1802
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Credit: An essay on the hydrocephalic state of fever / by Thomas Rowan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In the commencement or first stage, the patient is languid, inactive, often drowsy and peevish; but at intervals, cheerful and apparently free from complaint; the appetite is weak, nausea, and in many cases a vomiting occurs once or twice in a a day; the skin is observed to be hot and dry to- wards the evening: shortly after the appearance of these symptoms, the patient is affected with an acute head-ach, chiefly in the fore part, if not there, generally in the crown of the head, which frequently affects the back of the neck and shoul- ders; sometimes it is confined to one side of the head, and in that case, when the posture of the body is erect, the head often inclines to the side affected. We also find, that the head-ach alter- nates with the affection of the stomach; that is, the vomiting being less troublesome when the pain is most violent, and vice versa; other parts of the body are likewise subject to temporary attacks of pain, viz. the extremities, and bowels; in all such cases the head is more free from uneasiness. The patient dislikes the light at this period; cries much, sleeps little; and when he does sleep, he grinds his teeth, picks his nose, appears to be un- easy, and starts often, screaming as if he were terrified. In the majority of cases the bowels are much confined, however it sometimes happens that they are in an opposite state: the pulse in