Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Influenza / by W.T. Gairdner. 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.
13/28 (page 13)
![junctivse injected, no catarrh of nose or lachrymation; ” in yet another, only “slight cough.” Of course these charts may perhaps be regarded as to a certain extent selected, so as to show forth the disease in its least complicated forms. They show, however, at all events very clearly, that the sudden and Typical Case of Influenza. London Epidemic of 1889-90. R. B. W. (student), set. 23. 22nd December.—Was playing whist. Quite well up to that moment; then head got hot, felt giddy and feverish ; fanned him- self, then felt cold ; later, head- ache, anorexia, and aching of limbs. 23rd December.—No sleep last night; vomited once. No catar- rhal symptoms. Slight dryness of throat. Severe headache. Com- plete anorexia. Limb pains gone. Conjunctiva and eyes normal. No signs in chest or abdomen. Tongue white, thin plastered fur, flabby, moist. 2Jf!h December. — Nearly well. Headache nearly gone. No appe- tite. 25th December. — Quite well. 26th December.—Discharged. [N.B.—A very sudden rise of temperature to 105° F., with all the symptoms as of a very serious invasion of a specific fever. Equally sudden defervescence, without any notable complication, either in chest or abdomen. Temperature subnormal from fourth day.—W. T. G.] Chart showing the course of the temperature in a perfectly typical and entirely uncomplicated case of Influenza, as observed in St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, during the present epidemic. The details of the case arc noted in the margin. every way remarkable changes of temperature in this disease are not dependent upon, or even necessarily associated with the local complications, or with the catarrh as the most common of these. Now, all this, though new to many of us as thus displayed to the eye from accurate readings of the clinical thermometer,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21914503_0015.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
