On insolatio, sun-stroke, or coupe-de-soleil / by William Pirrie.

  • William Pirrie
Date:
1861
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Credit: On insolatio, sun-stroke, or coupe-de-soleil / by William Pirrie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    feet unconsciousness, and the gasping respiration, are striking features in this sudden and fatal form of seizure. In the second form of attack the sufferer has an un¬ usual and an extremely painful feeling in his head; a distressing sense of bursting and burning in his eyes, accompanied with giddiness and confusion of vision; a most overpowering sensation of constriction in the chest, with greatly oppressed respiration; great heat of the surface of the body ; a dark red, almost livid, colour of the skin, and an alarming sense of general opression and exhaustion. On looking at the patient, the impression formed was, that the chief suffering was in the chest, and patients labouring under this form complained most of the symptoms referable to the chest and the breathing, and in many instances described them as almost insup¬ portable. If proper means be instantly adopted and zealously pursued, consciousness may not be lost, and the symp¬ toms may be removed and leave the patient to all ap¬ pearance comparatively well; or they may increase in severity, and merge into those of the third form, the phenomena of which are the following :— The sufferer complains of violent pain in the head and eyes, of giddiness and confusion of sight, of a most painful feeling of suffocation and constriction in the chest, of extreme debility, especially in the back and limbs, of intense thirst, and of heat in the epigastrium, all which symptoms rapidly increase in severity until the superven¬ tion of insensibility, which too often most rapidly ensues.
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