An essay on the disease called yellow fever : with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague, partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures, before the Collge of Physicians, in the years 1806 and 1807. / By Edward Nathaniel Bancroft.

  • Bancroft, Edward Nathaniel, 1772-1842.
Date:
1811
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Credit: An essay on the disease called yellow fever : with observations concerning febrile contagion, typhus fever, dysentery, and the plague, partly delivered as the Gulstonian lectures, before the Collge of Physicians, in the years 1806 and 1807. / By Edward Nathaniel Bancroft. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tacliecl to each other, anti to the brain, that, in attempting to raise, or separate them, a part of the substance of the brain has been torn up. The volume of the brain is often increased, and the substance of it is, in some instances, more firm than usual; when cut, the vessels distri- buted through it, have been so distended with blood, that the’medullary part has immediately become thickly spotted with red points, owing to the oozing of blood from the divided vessels; and it was not rare to find that some of those vessels had been ruptured, and that blood had escaped into the substance of the brain. The ventricles have usually contained water, fre- quently of a yellow colour, and were, in some cases, quite filled with it. The plexus choroides has often been loaded with blood. Such is the disorganization which careful dis- sectors have uniformly detected, in a greater or less degree, in those cases of the Yellow Fever in which the predominant symptoms indicated a severe affection of the head. It accounts suf- ficiently for the occurrence of those symptoms, and for the fatality which so often attends them, as well as for the derangement of mind, the loss of memory, the impaired state of the siaht, and other senses, and the extreme feeble- ness of the limbs, which are the frequent con- sequences of this disorder in those who escape