Reports on questions connected with the investigation of non-malarial fevers in West Africa.

  • Great Britain. Yellow Fever Commission (West Africa)
Date:
1915 (Vols 1 and 2; London :
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Credit: Reports on questions connected with the investigation of non-malarial fevers in West Africa. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    9.55 a.m. Urine: 6| ozs., acid, albuminoas. Stool: Eggs of Ascaris I., and ankylostomum. 10.45 a.m: Blood : No parasites, I pigmented leucocyte in thick film' (15 minutes). II a.m. Jaundice pronounced. Tongue clean at tip and edges, whitish fur on dorsum, the papillae, showing as red points. Glabellar headache and severe epigastric pain. xMarked prostration. Pulse 94. 3 p.m. No headache. Pain over epigastrium and liver. Tem- perature 997, pulse 81, weak and compressible. Blood : No parasites and no pigment (J hour). 4.30 -p.m. Temperature 100, pulse 99= ;-' 6.40 p.m. Urine 6j ozs., albumin =3^^. 6.45. p.m. Temperature loi, pulse 100. 8.30 p.m.. Temperature 98'8, pulse 76. Epigastric pain. 25.5./^.—1.5 a.m. Urine 7 ozs., acid, albuminous 3.50 a.m. Urine 6J ozs., acid, albuminous. 8.30 a.m. Urine 3J ozs., high-coloured, turbid, deposit contains granular casts,. albumin oV- 9.20 a.m. Temperature 978, pulse 96. Blood: No parasites, 2 pigmented mononuclears in thick film. 2.40 p.m. Temperature 98'6, pulse 92. Blood: No parasites and no pigment. Urine 7J ozs., clear, albumin = transparent opacity, no deposit on centrifuging. No headache or epigastric tenderness. No splenic enlargement. 4.30 p.m. Urine ij ozs., clear, acid, albumin = opacity. 7 p.m. Urine 9 ozs., clear, albumin = opacity. 9.20 p.m. Urine ozs., clear, acid, albumin = faint opacity. Epigastric pain. No headache. Temperature 97*4, pulse 98, feeble and compressible. Patient is very weak. 26.^.14.—8 a.m. Urine 6h ozs., high-coloured, clear, acid, albumin = transparent opacity. 10.45 Temperature 98*4, pulse 91. Jaundice is fading. Epigastric tenderness. No headache. Blood : No parasites and no pigment, i Seidelin body. 3.10 p.m. Urine 6 ozs., clear, acid, albumin = transparent opacity. 4 p.m. Temperature 99*4, pulse 96. Blood : No parasites, 4 pig- mented mononuclears in thick film (f hour). 27.5.7^.-—6,30 a.m. Temperature 9S6, pulse 99. Urine 4 ozs., clear, very faint trace of albumin, and some compound protein. R T. Strophanth. ]\x., T. Nucis Vomic, 11]^x., T. Cicnt. Co. H^x. Aq. ad ^j, t.d.s. 3 p.m. Temperature 98*4, pulse 93. Tongue clean. Jaundice fading. Marked improvement of general condition : patient looks bright, feels stronger, no headache, etc. Appetite is asserting itself. Urine : Arid, clear, albumin = faint opacity. 28.^.14.—9 a.m. Urine: clear, arid, no deposit, albumin = opacity Temperature 984, pulse 75. Jaundice still distinct, but lessening.
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