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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    disturbance of the vital organs; the poor snfferer was*actually \ in the .'mi;1- of death. The pupils were fully dilated; the pulse wa be breathing was stento- 1, and a faint eruption existed on the body and Notwithstanding the immediate and i active use of brandy, and other m< ■ dculated to stimulate and sustain thevital powers, the case was every moment growing more and more hopi the disease seemed to mock every effort to check its fatal prioress. While consciousness remained, the child, in it> eagerness for relief, would snatch and swallow repeated doses of brandy, and whatever wai to it, with the greatest avidity. Bui speedily consciousness dethroned, and then all voluntary action was superseded by genera] subsultus tendennm. Tlie left arm, especially, was, f r an hour or more, kept almost constantly in motion of the most varied and eccentric character. Saving now given up all of the child's recovery, I sat a Long time and watched tl.- and irregular movements of this extremity. The arm was elevated, depressed, abducted, adducted and oircumcjuctusj the forearm was Hexed, extended, and rotated; the hand and • were in constant motion, reminding me of the skilful movements of a mute conversing with his fingers; and all these movements, is fer aS possible, Were going Ofl at the same time. At length coma succeeded, and death took place at 18 o'clock, only four- teen hours from the time the child was first obsen cd to he , 1 1. Son of C. W Clark, aged seven years was taken sud- denly, on the 16th of March, and died three days afterward?. In this case a purpural eruption was very distinct. ( »e 15. Son of N. Mitclul. ag.nl seven years, living on the river hank, in the First ward, was taken on the 00th of March. The day previous was cold, and in the afternoon the lad played along the hank of the river till he became quite chilly. He went to his mother with cries of being cold, and her sympathies being enlisted, he was made comfortable in bed. lie Blept till fh e o'clock in the morning, when he sent word to his father that his head ached and he was sick at his stomach. His father took him in his arms and conveyed him from the chamber where he flepl to the kitchen below Here he vomited and shook vio-