Five essays / By John Kearsley Mitchell ... Ed. by S. Weir Mitchell.
- John Kearsley Mitchell
- Date:
- 1859
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Five essays / By John Kearsley Mitchell ... Ed. by S. Weir Mitchell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Lamar Soutter Library at the University of Massachusetts Medical School.
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![moist seasons; and in thirty-tliree years, M. Noel met with this malady three or four times, and always in rainy and moist seasons. He also says, that among fifty patients, he did not find one luoman ; and he makes the very curious statement, that only the poor and ill- fed were its victims. Pereira describes almost choleric eifects of the poison of fungi, when he states that, in some cases, the powers of the vascular system were '^ remarhahly suppressed, the pulse being small and feeble, i]iQ extremities cold, and the body covered with a cold sweat.'^ It may not be disadvantageous to insert, in this place, the description of a yellow fever which became epidemic in the United States frigate Macedonian. It was given under oath to a court-martial, by Surgeon Chase:— There were pains in the head, loins, and limbs; tender- ness at the epigastrium, and sometimes in the fauces; nausea, vomiting, diarrhoea, or constipation; the face was flushed, and sometimes swollen, the pulse was either frequent and full, or slow and small; the eyes were red and watery; the mind was dejected; and there was, ah initio, low delirium or violent madness. The famous sweating sickness usually commenced with a short shivering fit, which, in malignant cases, convulsed even the extremities. Many experienced, at the beginning, a disagreeable creeping sensation, or for- mication, on the hands and feet, which passed into pricking pains, and an exceedingly painful sensation under the nails. Some persons were afflicted with swollen hands and feet. In many the countenance was bloated and livid, the heart ''trembled ajid palpitated,'' and lividness and rapid decomposition evinced the ten- dency to sphacelation. The plague, with its symptoms.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2119726x_0088.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
