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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    hours; pulse too quick and tremulous to be counted with certainty. I left him with the belief that he would not live more than twelve or eighteen hours ; but he did live between two and three days, sinking very gradually, with- out having another motion from his bowels. In this case, medicines did not appear to exert any in- fluence whatever. The fecal discharges were all the time of a rather bright yellow color, differing little in color or consistence from healthy bile ; and the diarrhea was at no time very troublesome. The febrifuges appeared to mit- igate the fever at the time of administration, but next day it was at least as high as ever. Sponging was very grate- ful, but otherwise seemed of no use. Quinine had no ef- fect in postponing or mitigating the afternoon exacerba- tion. Perhaps if it had been doubled or trebled it might have done better. Blisters drew well, and discharged well, but seemed to produce no effect. Restlessness was very great, yet almost every night he would get some comfortable sleep, either in the early or latter part of the nignt. [This account, including some additions to the report made in 1846, was prepared in 1847, but I have not hesitated to add some other facts and observations of later date which I thought worthy of insertion.]