Influenza and common colds : the causes, character and treatment of each / by W.T. Fernie.

  • Fernie, William Thomas, 1830-
Date:
1890
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Credit: Influenza and common colds : the causes, character and treatment of each / by W.T. Fernie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    often occurred at an early period of the attack, and sometimes became urgent symptoms. There was often diarrhoea, and the pains in the head, back, loins, and extremities, which are present with more or less severity in all forms of influenza, were frequently from the first of a severe character, or increased with the progress of the disease till they constituted a predominating feature. Distressing restlessness supervened, with nervous agitation, and inability to sleep. Delirium also came on, amount- ing in some cases only to a little excitement and incoherence, but becoming so urgent in others as to require the employment of restraint to keep the patient in bed. It was remarkable, nevertheless, how completely tliis subsided in the morning. Not- withstanding the severity of these cases, they generally did well ultimately, though the patients re- covered their strength but slowly, and often suffered Ions from lingering rheumatic disabilities. In the simpler cases during this last epidemic of 1847, the attack usually came on with suddenness. A sense of cold was felt down the back and between the shoulders, with chilliness and some shivering, succeeded by flushes of heat, dryness of skin, pains in the head, chest, and extremities, and prostration of strength. At first there was dryness of the nos-
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