Congestive fever : syn. pernicious fever, typhus petechialis, spotte [sic] fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, brain fever / by T.H. Squire.

  • Squire, T. H.
Date:
[1858]
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Credit: Congestive fever : syn. pernicious fever, typhus petechialis, spotte [sic] fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, brain fever / by T.H. Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    would lie in a BtU] I ;it other times he would appear to be Is, drivii men. B :i in the hack or urine w natural color and g tity. '-thirst; v. rater nor drink it unless requested to do so. 1 to be a total indifference to things around him; notaquestion asked from the beginning in r 1 to the nature of hi> disease, or its probable termination. 24th. No abatement of the symptoms, nor any able alteration, with the exception of suffusion of the eyes, and an inability to control the lid of the left eye, which had fallen down over the gl< be, and he was unable to raise it. Pulse sixty- per minute, and In other particulars natural; thedi med t<> make no Impression upon the circulation, unless If make it more torpid; the heart did nol seem to 1 at with that ree of force and frequency aa In health; and If you were to found your p • upon the circulation, the tongue, ' tlons and excretions, you would be led astray, not antici] a fatal terminatio n. 25th. His symptoms beglnnj assume a more formidable aspect; the tongue slightly furred and dry in the middle; when asked to show Ids tongue, lie fumbles it around his mouth, runs the end of it against the cheek,or up into the roof of his mouth, and takes a long time in out of the mouth. 26th. His head now Inclined to the right side and slightly drawn backwards; the conjunction considera- bly injected, ami the pupil dilated; a greater degree of stupor, and an increased motion of the right arm; bowels move daily, aided by medicine, and the discharges healthy in col tenceand smell; when aroused, complains of no pain, and be- comes stupid again when left to himself. 427th. Much weaker; impossible to arouse him; his head turned still more to the right and drawn further backwards; the pulse beginning to flag, de- glutition difficult; respiration natural till to-day; now more frequent. 28th. Two Involuntary movements from the bowels; urine passed in the same way: eyes intensely injected, and mat- ter floating about beneath the lids. An attempt was made to moT | iicntly uncomfori plac- ing him upon his back, and a pillow under his head, but the