Congestive fever : syn. pernicious fever, typhus petechialis, spotte [sic] fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, brain fever / by T.H. Squire.

  • Squire, T. H.
Date:
[1858]
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Credit: Congestive fever : syn. pernicious fever, typhus petechialis, spotte [sic] fever, cerebro-spinal meningitis, brain fever / by T.H. Squire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ehild'fi distress to ]>nss unheeded till it was in a dying condition. There \v.;s no eruption on the skin. Case 9. Reported by Dr J. F. Hart. Son of James Powell, aged ten years, living on Railroad street, Second ward, Elmira. This boy, having till then, enjoyed good health, was taken sick on the ninth of March. Quite late in the evening I was called to see him; found he had suffered a severe chill; his whole body was cold, and there was feeble pulse, with frequent vomiting and great prostration of the muscular system. By appropriate remedies, reaction was established; but, the disease continuing, the above symptoms were followed by delirium, convulsions and coma, and the patient died on the evening of the 12th March, sixty hours from the commencement of the disease. No erup- tion of the surface appeared. Case 10. Reported by Dr. Tenney. A second child of John Curley, aged five years, was taken with pain in his limbs, at ten o'clock, P. M., tenth of March. Mustard applications were made to the feet, and the child was put to bed. It rested but poorly through the night, and in the morning it began to vomit and to complain of headache. I was called at nine o'clock, A. M. The child was then rational, but very much prostrated, having a small and feeble pulse. Energetic measures were re- sorted to to save the patient's life, but they were of no avail; death took place at five o'clock, P. M., eight hours from the time of my first visit. No eruption. Case 11. Reported by Dr. Chubbuck. At eight o'clock Tues- day morning, March tenth, I was called to see James Dalley, an Irish laborer, thirty years of age, residing in the town of South- port, about one mile from my office. On my arrival, I found him in bed, complaining of some headache, the pain being most severe in the top of the head. His pulse was pretty full and strong, almost to a bleeding point; bowels were constipated, skin dry and hot, and the patient was inclined to be stupid. On inquiry, I learned that he had been dissipating to excess for two days and nights previously; had attended an Irish wake, where a child had died of the spotted fever; had drunk and danced