Some account of the last yellow fever epidemic of British Guiana / by Daniel Blair, surgeon general of British Guiana ; edited by John Davy, inspector general of army hospitals, etc.

  • Blair, Daniel.
Date:
1852
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Some account of the last yellow fever epidemic of British Guiana / by Daniel Blair, surgeon general of British Guiana ; edited by John Davy, inspector general of army hospitals, etc. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

    99/290 (page 77)
    Although the remarkable slowness of pulse in convalescence from our yellow fever was early observed, the following limited trial for comparison by me on the subject is, I believe, the only one which has been made. The fact was observed long before the experiment was instituted. Comparison of Adult Pulses in Convalescence from Virulent Yellow Fever with Adult Pulses in Cases convalescent from Inflammatory Diseases, and Adult Pulses in Cases where no Febrile Action had existed; made in Seaman's Hospital this dat* (10th Sept. 1843). Yellow Fever. Inflammatory Cases. Accidents and Ailments, \f-ithout Fever Name. Pulse. Name. Pulse. JfPreTious .. Disease. Name. Pulse. Previous Ailment. Fletcher - M'l^aren - Wilson M'Tomony More - - 50 56 52 63 58 5)272 54-41 irregular, regular. irregular, regular. Pearse - Harding Hall- - Rowzer Lynass - 115 102 102 90 100 8)509 Bronchitis. Empyema Paracentisls Asthma. Empyema Paraceutisis Cough; sus pected tu- bercular in- filtration in right lung. t Average pulse. Purcell - Sinclair - Martin - Briar - - Johnston 76 84 84 84 84 6)412 Muscular pain. Eccentricity of conduct. Paralysis — (chronic). Anchylosis of knee joint. Bruise of leg. 10I-8t 82-41 N.B. All the patients convalescent from yellow fever have been and are taking wine (8 oz. Moselle) each daily; none of the others have had any stimulant. The heat of surface was greatest over the head and chest, and in the hands, arms, and feet. It was greatest, and persisted longest, in the cerebral variety of the disease. When the local determination of the disease was to the intestines, mucous surface of the lungs or urinary apparatus, the least febrile excitement existed. In a few cases there seemed to be determination to the skin from mosquito wounds, and this variety was attended Avith little excitement also. The fever heat lasted during the first stage only in normal cases. Inflammatory complications sometimes excited the animal heat even after the supervention of black vomit; but this was very rare, and, in general, the ♦ [Unusual slowness of pulse was very often observed in the yellow fever ot liarbados, and commonly accompanied with undue coolness of skin, especially in the extremities; it was a rem.arkable feature of the disease after it.s hrst invasion, —the time varying in dilfercnt cases. The Author's luiiuite observations on this symptom appear to me very valuable ]—Eu