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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    If called in early, the medical attendant usually finds his patient in a state of extreme prostration, and affected with convulsions, vomiting, a burning hot skin, a very contracted pupil, an excessively suffused conjunctiva, and a rapid and feeble pulse. In many cases, shortly after the seizure, priapism and emission of semen take place. The respiration in all cases is hurried, imperfect, and gasping; and, before insensibility comes on, the sufferer is often in a restless, alarmed, and agitated state, not un¬ like that observed in persons labouring under delirium tremens. The patient remains in this condition for a longer or shorter time according to circumstances ; but before the scene closes, the pupil becomes so contracted as to be almost obliterated ; the conjunctiva more and more suffused; the respiration, at first hurried, imper¬ fect, and gasping, becomes slower and rather stertorous; the convulsions and vomiting cease, and the sufferer lies perfectly motionless, it may he, in a state of low mutter¬ ing delirium, hut completely insensible to all outward impressions. The skin retains its burning heat, hut be¬ comes rather clammy; the sphincters relax, the rapid, feeble pulse becomes more and more weak, and at last the patient expires. Such are the symptoms when the affection ends fatally; hut the case may result in fever, or the indivi¬ dual may have a severe attack, and he may ultimately recover ; but after the characteristic symptoms have been removed, he usually continues to suffer, for a longer or shorter time, from pain in the head and eyes, from giddi-
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