Report ... on the Asiatic cholera, together with a report of the City Physician on the Cholera Hospital.

  • Committee of Internal Health (Boston, Mass.)
Date:
1849
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Credit: Report ... on the Asiatic cholera, together with a report of the City Physician on the Cholera Hospital. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    State of heart and blood. Case. Left Vertricle. Coagulum. Duration of Disease. 11. Deficient. Deficient. 15 : hours. *12. U Moderate. 53 <£ 13. Firm. Deficient. 52 U 14. Deficient. u 10 U *15. Firm. It 151 U 16. u Abundant and firm. 171 U 17. U Deficient. 17 U 18. Flaccid. Moderate. 240 a 19. Natural. Deficient 15 u 20. Deficient. 10^ u 21. Flaccid. 150 u 22. Firm. a 96 a *23. Deficient. a 42 u 24. Flaccid. Moderate. 24 u 25. U Deficient. 28 u 26. Deficient. ii 20 u 27. Firm. U 12 u 28. Flaccid. « 19 u 29. u 18 30. Deficient. Moderate. 108 a 31. tt Entirely absent. 121 u *32. u Deficient. 301 u 33. Flaccid. u H u The cases marked (*) are those which presented more or less abundant ecchymoses on the heart. Three of the cases presented peculiar appearances, in consequence of the disease, or its sequelse, being un- usually prolonged, in one, to the tenth day, in another, to the fifth, and, in another, to the seventh. The first of these patients, John McCarthy, was in the Cholera stage for three days. He then passed into a typhoid condition, with dry tongue and skin, epistaxis, sordes upon the lips and teeth, bilious discharges, a dusky paleness of the countenance and gradually in- creasing stupor.*]* Death took place after this condition t He did not have the typhus eruption.