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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    [ U8 ] times in a minute. Upon the whole, I have never found it quicker than 130, nor flower than 30, in a minute. Subfultus tendjnum is by no means a common fymptom in the advanced itage ; but ^tremor of the hands and of the lips, and violent fpafmodic contraction of the legs and arms are very common, and al-. ways prognosticate much danger. The appearance of the tongue is very various ; in fome patients continuing white with florid edges to the very lalt; in others, becoming dark-coloured very early, and changing to black a little before death ; but in general, the change of colour of the fur with which the tongue, teeth, and even the fauces are covered, is gradual. Thus, during the two firft days it is a white or clayey ; it afterwards becomes bufFy ; then of a deep, orange : about the fifth day, brownifh ; and when the cafe terminates in death, black. The thicknefs of the fur increafes with the difeafe, and feems latterly to impede much the fpeech of the patient. The edges of the tongue are generally florid, exactly refem-