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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    10 bended danger, have been found in this class; lienee, the study of the symptoms as thus modified and the treatment employed, are most important. Asthma.—Case 7.—Phoebe Williams, aet. 63, housewife, 9 court, Lower Tower-street, was admitted a home pa- tient of the Birmingham Dispensary, January 31,1837. Has been aslimatic for thirty years ; had a cough, accom- panied by yellowish expectoration, when on January 22 she was seized with a shivering, followed by pain in the head, limbs, and more especially the back. Jan. 31. Bowels are confined; has much pain in the back, head, and limbs ; urine is high coloured and thick ; tongue white; skin dry; dyspnoea urgent; cough; nauseous taste in the mouth; percussion elicits a clear sound all over the chest; respiration is 44, laboured ; mucous rale exists over the whole of the anterior portion of the right lung, and over a large space of its posterior surface; on the left side there is much sonorous and sibilous rale ; pulse 110, sharp, not full; no sleep. [Hydrarg. Submur. gr. ij. Pulv. Jalapce, gr. viij. hdc node.—Mist. Salin. 5 jss. Tinct. Lobelice jEther. nj, x. Vin. Ipecac, nj, x. 4tis horis.—Morphice Muriat. gr. omni node.'] Feb. 2.—Very ill; pulse 126, feeble; respiration ex- tremely laboured and dyspnoea intolerable ; rale as before; but tbe mucous rale has become almost tracheal; bowels relieved. [Emplast. Lyttce. sterno.—Tinct. Lobeliai Either. 5 ss. Aquce, 5 ij. altera qudque hora.] My notes are wanting up to Feb. 11, when she was much relieved; respiration 30, easy ; mucous rale much less, and more circumscribed ; bowels confined. [Perstet etliabeat 01. Ricini, p. r. n.] 13. Complaiusof greatdifiiculty in expectorating. [Adde Misturce Lobelice, Sodce Subcarb. gr. v. sing, dosibus ter die surnend.—Emplast. Opii, sterno.] In a few days this patient was comparatively well. She has now sibilous and sonorous rales; and expectoration ot