A treatise on the influenza of 1837, containing an analysis of one hundred cases, observed at Birmingham, between the 1st of January and the 15th of February / by Peyton Blakiston.

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1837
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Credit: A treatise on the influenza of 1837, containing an analysis of one hundred cases, observed at Birmingham, between the 1st of January and the 15th of February / by Peyton Blakiston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1-2 which he often has from exposure in his calling, when on the afternoon of January 25th, he was seized with a violent shivering lit, as if he was going to have the ague. He ex- perienced alternate heats and chills during the night, and in the morning his head felt very light and giddy and ached severely; the pain soon extended down his back and limbs, and his cough became greatly increased. January 28. Complains of great headache and pain in his eyes; great debility and lassitude, and aching pains in all his limbs; cough is very troublesome; expectoration difficult; dyspnoea considerable; tongue covered with a yellowish brown fur; has a bad taste in his mouth; bowels are and have been regular from the first; pulse 84, rather full; much pain and constriction about the chest; appetite gone; thirst; skin rather dry ; percussion clear ; respiration 36, accompanied by sibilous and sonorous rales; action of heart heavy and distant. [Emplast. Lyttce, sterno.— Tinct. Ilyoscyami, rtj_ xv. Tinct. Lobelice, nj, xv. Vin. Ipecac, nt x. Aquce, J j. altera quaque hora.] 30. Much relieved. Perstet. February 1. Cough much better and loose; expecto- ration muco-purulent; sibilous and sonorous reties gone; respiration 28, easy; head feels light but not painful; appe- tite is still bad, and he feels so low as to dread fainting; pulse 65, feeble and small. [Jmmo/i. Carb. gr. v. Infus. Gentian, 5 j. ter die.] March 6. This patient complains of dyspnoea on the least exertion ; action of heart is very heavy and distant, and there is more dullness than usual around the region of the heart, but the pulse is tolerably steady. The respi- ration is clear and vesicular, but feeble in points. It is pro- bable that the heart is enlarged, and the lungs slightly emphysematous, and were so at the time of his attack; I shall therefore proceed to detail a case in which there is no reason to suspect the slightest disease previous to her attack.