A practical account of a remittent fever, frequently occurring among the troops in this climate / by Thomas Sutton.

Date:
1806
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Credit: A practical account of a remittent fever, frequently occurring among the troops in this climate / by Thomas Sutton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the first week, and sometimes so early as the third day. In these cases, the patient is seized with great anxiety, oppression of the breast, and la- borious respirations ; which affections.arrive, very suddenly and unexpectedly, at an alarming height. I'he pulse in some patients, under these circum- stances, becomes very quick and fluttering, and then gradually sinks; in others, it is throbbing and full to nearly the last moment. Such as are so affected, exist from six to twelve houts. When the disease is treated as typhus, and re- course is early had to wine, opium, bark, cam- phire, and other stimulants, the following appear- ances generally occur:—In a short time, stupor and delirium come on j the tongue becomes brown and dry; is protruded with difficulty, and remains out of the mouth of the patient with a seeming unconsciousness of the circumstance, or is with- drawn with a sort of trembling involuntary effort. In a few days, the teeth are covered with a black sordes, and the tongue with a black fur, or pel- licle 5 the eyes become muddy and watery i the countenance vacant •, the remissions of fever less perceptible; the delirium, or stupor unabated, or increased: the pulse is now quick, but in such