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. Intestines : — enteritis [?] .3 containing black vomit and mucus - - - - 11 bloody, green mucus - - - - - -2 pure black vomit - - - - - 1 tarry black vomit - - - - - 4 greenish purulent-looking mucus, otherwise healthy - - 1 containing only white mucus - - - - -2 „ white and green ditto - - - - 4 „ green mucus, down to jejunum, and primrose yellow mucus afterwards - - - 2 slate coloured mucus - - - - - 1 containing in duodenum tarry black vomit, in upper part of jejunum green mucus, and in lower part of jejunum yellow mucus - - - - - - 2 marked submucous arborizations in all small intestines - 7 Large Intestines:— containing yellow mucous fasces - - - 1 „ a live lumbricoides - - - - 1 mucous membrane generally congested - - 7 hyperaemiated in patches as far as rectum - - 6 bloody and thick mucus in, with bloodless mucus in small intestines - - - - - - -1 bloody throughout - - - - - - 1 marked submucous arborization - - - - 13 healthy - - - - - - 2 Aggregate and Solitary Glands:— well developed - - - - - - 35 hyperaemiated - - - - - 8 surrounded by blue ecchymosis „ red areolae - - - - 1 with black 1 navels' - - - - - - 3 Duodenum: — healthy 1 1 much contracted in calibre: otherwise healthy - 1 containing much yellow viscid matter, otherwise healthy - 1 „ air vesicles below mucous membrane - 1 dirty greenish hue - - - - - excessively hyperaemiated - - - - 27 containing much black vomit admixtures - - - 11 mammillated - extensive submucous arborization - - - 9