A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
Date:
1824
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Credit: A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Perspiration is affected : {s sometimes very profuse. SYMPTOMS OF TYPHUS. frequent and undulatory, when the breathing is hurried and unequal, or accompanied, as it frequently is, by occasional long and full in- spirations like sighing. After the patient has been sometime sick, if the disease proves severe, there is a pe- culiar whistling sound produced when he breathes through the nose, and when asleep or lying in a state of coma, the mouth is gene- rally kept open and the breathing has some- what of a stertorous sound. In some instances, there is no sensible perspiration for several days succeeding the attack of the disease, in others, there will be more or less sweating about the head, face and superior part of the body, while the other parts remain dry and hot. Occasionally, the patient will sweat, during a part of the twenty-four hours, almost from the beginning of the fever. In fatal cases there sometimes appears, what has been called the washer-woman’s . sweat, which is extremely profuse over the whole surface of the body and extremities, standing in large drops on the face, and giv- Ke
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