Pathological observations, Part I. on dropsy, purpura and the influenza of the latter end of the year 1822, and beginning of that of 1823; and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustraled [sic] by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker ...

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1823
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Credit: Pathological observations, Part I. on dropsy, purpura and the influenza of the latter end of the year 1822, and beginning of that of 1823; and particularly on the morbid changes of the blood, and their influence on the production and course of the diseases, illustraled [sic] by select cases and dissections / by William Stoker ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    good health and spirits, excepting a slight ten- dency to headache, which she disregarded, she became apoplectic. First visit.—At seven o’clock in the evening, I found her apparently moribund; the powers of speech, of swallowing, or any kind of voluntary motion was totally suspended. Complete paralysis of the right side had taken place, and convulsions constantly agitated and distorted the other side. The left side of the face was much distorted, the mouth drawn to that side, and the palpebra? of the eye, and the eye itself, agitated with spasm ; the muscles of the other eye, which lay open, and the pupil of which was dilated, seemed perfectly paralysed; pulse scarcely perceptible; had frequent and long intermissions; the skin clammy, and unequally warm; respiration quick and laborious. Surgeons Macklin and O’Reilly tried to draw blood by openings, made successively in the me- dian vein of each arm, the jugular veins, and temporal artery, but ineffectually, as none flowed from these openings, though assisted by friction and fomentation. Leeches to the temples were then applied; the head was shaved and blis- tered ; stimulant frictions, warm baths, and ene-