This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...they indicate a fatal 1 Gazzetta degli ospedali e delle cliniche, January "l, 1899, p. 25. termination in the near future. In Osller's case death followed convulsions produced by thrombosis of the branches of the left middle cerebral artery in twelve hours. If they occur in neurotic children or females the outlook is ...
Read More
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ...they indicate a fatal 1 Gazzetta degli ospedali e delle cliniche, January "l, 1899, p. 25. termination in the near future. In Osller's case death followed convulsions produced by thrombosis of the branches of the left middle cerebral artery in twelve hours. If they occur in neurotic children or females the outlook is not so gloomy, as they probably do not depend upon an actual lesion in the brain. Thus West has recorded a case in which convulsions developed in the third week of typhoid fever in a child, recurring ou two successive days. These were followed by hemiplegia which, however, gradually disappeared in four days. Recovery eventually took place. During February, 1899,1 saw in consultation with Dr. Loux, of Philadelphia, a girl in the third week of typhoid fever with typical hysteria, as shown in the facial expression aud in the attitude of her body. Her arms were abducted, her forearms completely flexed at a right angle with the arms, aud the hands completely flexed at a right angle with her forearms. This ease showed, nevertheless, evidences of profound toxaemia, and died a few days later. When first taken ill she was very hysterical, cried and screamed, and repeatedly asserted if she got typhoid fever she would die. A possible cause of sudden death during typhoid fever, or in convalescence, is said to be bulbar paralysis. Thus Latil1 mentions a woman of forty-two years, who suffered from a severe attack of typhoid fever with hyperpyrexia and extreme prostration, but not equally marked nervous symptoms. On the eighteenth day of the attack she suffered from paralysis of the bladder, and on the forty-second day from tetanic contraction of the massetcr muscles, with dysphagia and a nasal voice. The respiration became shallow and rapid, the patient...
Read Less
