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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    li forcibly r< pain Is produced; she cannot be placed in any other pnsitioi . and moves the arms and legi men- <>r l<-s^. ;ui(i sometimes throws the bead ^till fur- ther backwards; the breathing is now, and '1 and irregular—-a few Inspirations too frequent, then as many either natural or too slow; tongne inclined to be dry, and furred in the middle; pulse 110,and otherwise not remarkahle; no vomiting at present; eyes not congested; pupils natural; ^Ijl'Iii dulnets of the ( d-comatose; bo appetite; no thirst; had some chills yesterday; Btarta, as usual, with worms; -kin natural and dry; ehild eries as if in B oially when twitched, or moved in any direction. Put the ehild in a warm bath, wrapped it in flannel and pui a blister alone: the -pine. Si\ o'clock P. M., child lying on settee by the wall; wra] in flannel and blankets; lies all the time <>n the right - head tin-own far backwards, and spine much curved; ntt a cry of distress every few moments, and at the same time trie- to throw the hips still further backwards towards the 1 • with each cry, also, the left arm is elevated and thrown hick- wards; skin quite hot and dry; tongue nearly olean and slightly dry, eyes not congested—pupils natural: pulse frequent—arm not still quite long enough to count them—say 1 l<>: DO B] surface sensitive; turned the child upon the left side; cried much, and soon got back into the old position; respiration be- coming a little hoarse; A<<v- not talk; cannot Bwallow; the child must die soon. Sunday, six o'clock P.M.—The child main- tained the same symptoms all night, and died this morning iit seven o'clock; body warm at death. Sectio Cadt mis. — The neck, which was BO rigid yesterday, now perfectly flaccid, and the rigor mortis very Blight in m other part of the body. Placed the body on the table; made an incision from ear to ear; turned hack the scalp; sawed through the scull and removed th< :y carefully; nothing remark- able in the external appearance of the dura-mater; took the and divided this membrane parallel with the course of the saw; with the forcep raised this membrane so as; the left hemisphere of the brain; this revealed a striking patho- [Asaembly, No. 85.J U