Some account of the last yellow fever epidemic of British Guiana / by Daniel Blair ; edited by John Davy.

Date:
1850
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Credit: Some account of the last yellow fever epidemic of British Guiana / by Daniel Blair ; edited by John Davy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    Cases. Stomach : — thickened to one-tenth of an inch - peeled, showing dissected and disorganised vessels - - 2 eroded and blackened - - ~ - 3 superficial ulcerations and erosions of - - - 15 foul or sloughy ulcerations of inflamed [?] - - - - 11 generally hyperaeniiated, or congested - - - 71 n „ of which with ecchymosis - - 15 remarkable submucous vascular arborizations* •• - 8 (Esophagus: — mucous membrane hyperaemiated and congested - - 41 inflamed - - - - - - 8 ecchymosed in submucous coat - - - - 11 red, extravasation into - - - - -2 mucous membrane eroded - - - - - 54 destroyed and curled up in black soft pieces - - 2 showing leashes of exposed and disorganised red vessels - 2 granular appearance near cardia - - - - 3 generally softened - - - - - 1 ulcerated - - - - - - -11 mammillated - - - - - - 2 extensive submucous arborizations - - - 8 healthy - - - - - - 8 Intestines:— peritoneal coat dull green - - - - - 5 yellow - - - - - - - 2 normal - - - - - - -3 bowels highly inflated - - - - 5 „ contracted - - - - - 2 „ healthy - - - - - 3 extensive subperitoneal extravasation - - 1 submucous extravasation - - - - - 11 mucous membrane of small intestines highly hyperaemiated - 18 small intestines, mucous membrane studded with black specks 1 * [The appearances after death from yellow fever are so like those which are detected after death by arsenic-poisoning, and so many symptoms are common to both, that the idea has occurred, of the mineral, in some form or other, being the pathogenic cause of yellow fever. The author, in com- municating this to me in a note, adds, — This is sheer hypothesis, however, and requires apology for even adverting to it. Such it surely is, — mere hypothesis; nor is there any reason to consider it well founded. It may help, however, to convey an impression of the lesions under consideration, and on that account only it may be deserving of attention.] — Ed.