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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    In the middle of the night he was taken wiffa sickness of tli<* stomach, vomiting] severe head-ache, and soreness of the whole muscular system. Domestic treatment WBS relied uj><»n till the evening of the second, when Dr. J. F. Hart was called in. At this time there was a feverish condition of the skin and pulse, a slightly furred tongue, congested and watery eyes, with in- creased sensibility to light, difficult articulation, complete de- rangement of mind, and great prostration of muscular power. A cathartic was administered which operated favorably. On the morning of the third, Dr. Hart observed large circular stains, of a mulberry color, scattered here and there, at wide intervals, over the lower extremities; the skin was so morbidly sensitive to the touch, that even gentle sponging of the surface was dis- agreeable to the patient, and any attempt to move the body from one side of t e bed to the other caused excruciating pain. Nearly the same symptoms continued till the morning of the 6th, when death closed the scene. Case 3. Reported by Dr. Wey. On the 13th of February, at 10 o'clock, P. M., I was called to visit an infant, aged eight months, at the Seely creek railroad bridge, in the town of South- port, two miles from the village of Elmira. It was attacked suddenly, so the father informed me; and just before leaving the house, and not more than an hour or two from the commence- ment of the sickness of the stomach, he observed an eruption of cherry-colored spots on its face and neck, and immediately on observing this appearance, he started on a hand car tor a physi- cian. Forty-eight hours before, during the evening of the 11th of February, a sister of the infant, aged seven years, apparently in perfect health, was attacked in the same manner, and in a few hours, nearly its whole body, but more particularly its arms and legs, became covered with an eruption, or spotted discoloration, at first cherry-colored, but finally changing to a much darker color, and varying in size from the minutest speck, to the extent of a two-shilling piece, and even larger. Dr. Jewell, of Wellsburgh, had seen and prescribed for this child several times, and at the time its father came for me, he stated that it could- not possibly survive, and might die before