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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    i :i.5. Reported by Dr. 81 Id. Julia Whiting, aged ■ of good constitution, living on Ciom street, Ucked on the evening of the 28th of April, she had invited a few of hex schoolmates Into the house to Bpend the i . and, at nine o'olock, while they were dancing, she suddenly dizzy and dropped upon the lounge, Baying to her mother that there was a strange reeling In her head. She slept well till the latter part of the night, when she awoke with a severe pain in her head. At four o'clock A. M., April 29, she had a hard chill, and vomited three or four times, sfter which she sank into a Bweel sleep,' as her mother described it. At eight o*< was moved from the hed to the lounge. In putting on her clothes they discovered an eruption upon her hack, and her mo- ther remarked that she had been exposed to the measles, and that they were coming out beautifully. She remained in this comatose condition—-'sweet sleep—until three o'clock P. If., when the}- thought, from her peculiar breathing, advisable to call in a physician; remarking at the same time that they could not make her know them. 1 arrived at the hoUSS at half-] three o'clock, and found her nearly pulseless, breathing heavily, extremities cold, pupils dilated, and the eyes of a glassy appear- ance; drawing baok of the head, and constant sighing; would am out when touched.<>r when an attempt W8J made t i im>ve her; she could not bear to have a finger moved. I examined the eruption upon the hack; it consisted of small spots, upon each side of the spine, from the upper part of the neck to the sacrum; they were very uniform ami of the size of a pin's head; the skin was completely covered with them; there were none upon the extremities or other parts of the body; they were of a raisin color. She was immediately put upon the free use of stimulants, placed in hed. and hot a].plications applied to her till profuse perspiration was obtained. The head continued to fall backwards and to Incline to the left side, as in the case ai- re id\ described, (18) ami notwithstanding the most energetic measures, Bhe continued rapidly to sink; the sighing became more distressing, and led me to think the influence of the respi- rator) nerves was partially suspended. She laid perfectly quiet during the night, aud died on the morning of the 3i'th, at five ck.