An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 / by C. Chisholm.

  • Chisholm, Colin, 1755-1825.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 / by C. Chisholm. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    t n6 ] ,, where it is generally exquifite ; it alfo fome- times extends to the temples, where indeed there is always a throbbing. In no cafe has pain been felt in the occiput, or ge- nerally throughout the head. The albu- ginea of the eyes is always much inflamed at the fame time; the balls are generally protruded, or feem ready to Hart from their orbits ; and the patient is fenfible of a pain in them, which renders the admiffion of light intolerable. It has fometimes hap- pened that the right eye has been mofc con- fiderably affected; and when this has been the cafe, the pain has been mofl felt in the right fide of the head. The pain in the legs has been always felt immediately below the calf, where the gaftrocnemii and foleus mufcles unite and form the great tendon. A conflderable involuntary contraction of the leg takes place in c'onfequence of it; and in the point where it is chiefly felt, it communicates a fenfation fimilar to gnaw- ing, which from time to time oc.calions ex- treme torture. Upon the whole, this pain refembles very much the cramp ; with this difference only, that it is, during the con- tinuance of the fever, more permanent.