A course of lectures on hydrophobia : its history, pathology, and treatment / compiled from manuscript notes of the late Dr. T.S. Holland ; delivered in the theatre of the North Charitable Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital by T.C. Shinkwin.

  • Holland, Thomas S.
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[1865]
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Credit: A course of lectures on hydrophobia : its history, pathology, and treatment / compiled from manuscript notes of the late Dr. T.S. Holland ; delivered in the theatre of the North Charitable Infirmary and City of Cork General Hospital by T.C. Shinkwin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    no iiYDUornoBiA ; throo of every seven cases ; wliile fmrrieil respiration, op- ]>rcssion, dyspnoea, or suffocative attacks following the sight of fluids, or attempts to swallow, and often occurring even spontaneously, formed a symptom in two of every three cases; with a brilliant, wild, or haggard expression of the eyes presenting itself seven times in every eighteen cases ; general convulsions, alterations in bearing, feeling, and vision occurred frequently, all about the same time, in the proportion of seven to eveiy eight cases of the first; one in six of the second; seven in fifteen of the third, and five in eleven cases of the last mentioned symptom. The saliva begins to be secreted in iuoreased quantity at or about the time when these phenomena are well developed, and pours from the mouth, or is repeatedly spat out, in five out of every six cases ; delirium occurs about the same time eight times in every twelve, and soon assumes a more or less furious character, in the proportion of three to these tw'elve cases. The pupils became dilated five times in sixteen ; contracted once in every thirty; eyes injected once in twenty ; imperfect vision once, and total loss of vision once in the 120 cases. Lastly, alteration of the sexual desires, as evinced by priapism, ejection of semen, and once by the lustful character of the delirium, occurred once in every eight cases ; when a convulsion of a more protracted and terrific character than any of the former, producing asphyxia nine times in thirty-seven cases ; either that or collapse once in every thirty ; or coma once in forty cases, terminated a scene at which Medicine can do naught but deplore her weakness and lament that she is unable to check the course of a disease which leads with rapid strides to the grave. The following calculations arc deduciblc from the general summary of the 120 cases :— 1st. The shortest interval between the bite and the first