A treatise on the influenza of 1837 : containing an analysis of one hundred cases, observed at Birmingham, between the 1st of January and the 15th of February / by Peyton Blakiston.

Peyton Blakiston

Date:: 1837

Credit: A treatise on the influenza of 1837 : containing an analysis of one hundred cases, observed at Birmingham, between the 1st of January and the 15th of February / by Peyton Blakiston. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$much worse; she is labouring under great dyspnoea; tongue coated; great thirst; weight and dull pain below the heart; expectoration is of the colour of sepia, not in streaks, but the colour is intimately blended; there is some clear mucus however with it; percussion elicits a dull sound over the whole lower third of the lcftlung both before and behind, which is not altered by position ; respiration is 44, and null over the same space as the dullness, but there is no trace of any rale ; it is rather puerile elsewhere ; over the same spot there is bronchophony ; pulse 110, small but sharp. [Antim. Tart. gr. j. Syr. Papav. 3 j. Aquce distil. 3 xv. altera qudque hor&.\ 12. Has been much purged, and vomited after the three first doses of her medicine; since then she has tolerated it ; the auscultatory signs are the same. 13. Same signs. [Antim. Tart. gr. jss. altera qnaque hord.] 14. Dyspnoea less; respiration 34 ; expectoration more ferruginous in its colour; auscultatory signs the same. [Antim. Tart. gr. ij. altera qudque hard.] 15. Colour of the sputa is become much lighter ; a slight crepitant rale is now heard at the bottom of the left side behind. [Perstet.] 17. Crepitant rale distinct; appetite returning. [Per- stet.] 19. Rale almost disappeared ; much dullness still re- mains. 23. Rale is quite gone; respiration 20, feeble in the affected part; pulse 75; appetite good; tongue clean; slight dullness. With the exception of a little dyspepsia this patient soon recovered. It is remarkable that this should have been the fifth at- tack of pneumonia in the same family within twelve months. The mother and one little brother had it once each, and another little brother has had it twice. The two children$