A history of the disease usually called typhoid fever : as it has appeared in Georgetown and its vicinity, with some reflections as to its causes and nature / by W.L. Sutton.

  • William Loftus Sutton
Date:
1850
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Credit: A history of the disease usually called typhoid fever : as it has appeared in Georgetown and its vicinity, with some reflections as to its causes and nature / by W.L. Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lieved; two stools, same character; considerable dis- charge of flatus ; black powder in bottom of vessel; tongue much the same ; throat more sore, somewhat ul- cerated; screatus continues; some nausea last night; skin still warm ; lips remain plump, abdomen as yesterday ; pulse 96. R.—Gargle of nitrate potash, brandy and honey. Continue drinks and sponging; no medicine. Cut off the hair. 17th.—Delirium is increasing, notwithstanding the blis- ter discharges freely; face continues flushed, lips plump, tongue more red, throat no better; respiration irregular, abdomen as last stated ; two stools, much flatus ; counte- nance becoming more anxious ; pulse 100. R.—Pill hy- drarg., pulv. Dover a gr. iii, sexta quaquc hora. Carl). ammonia, gr. ii, secunda quaq. hora in mucillage. 19th.—Pulse 105; [it is generally, of late, from 10 to 15 more frequent at night than at my visit,] skin still above the natural temperature. On the thorax is an eruption, which seems an effort at the rose-colored spots; at least there are some fifteen or twenty tawny spots, of about the size, slightly elevated. Tongue broad, brown, red at tip and edges ; complains less of throat, though it is still ulcerated; screatus continues; tympanites, but no tenderness; two stools, unchanged, flatus excessive; urine of good color ; more delirious, still restless ; on 18th perspired freely. Of late emaciation has progressed con siderably; and the countenance is becoming sharpened. R.—Continue the medicines, em p. episp. to epigastrium. 21st.— In every respect worse ; countenance more sharpened ; but the lips have retained their plumpness throughout his illness ; tongue more brown, but moist and broad, red at edges and tip ; two stools daily; skin warm; no change in the spots ; delirious night and day ; pulse 130. 23rd.— Becoming comatose; eyes suffused; tongue still moist but dark, meteorism ; has had no stool for sixty