Cerebral haemorrhage as a sequel to pneumonia / by G. A. Gibson.

  • Gibson George Alexander, 1854-1913.
Date:
[1884]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cerebral haemorrhage as a sequel to pneumonia / by G. A. Gibson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    not cause her any alarm until about noon of the day on which she sent for me. The family has been for three years under my care, during which time she had not been once unwell, indeed she frequently assured me that, with the exception of the ordinary troubles of childhood, she had never experienced a day’s illness in her life. The patient’s father died of cardiac failure with dropsy at the age of eighty, and her mother of the secondary results of cerebral haemorrhage in her 76th year. They had twelve children, of whom the patient was one of the eldest. Of her four brothers, one died in infancy, and another was drowned at the age of sixteen, the remaining two being in excellent health. One of her sisters died in infancy, and two were carried off by pulmonary phthisis at the ages of 48 and 52. The other four are alive; three being fairly robust; the youngest however has for some time had a tendency to renal disease, for which she was treated by me. The patient had seven children, three boys and four girls; one of the boys died during infancy in India, but the others are all in good health. The patient’s home for the greater part of her life was in the West Highlands, save for the last three years, which were spent in Edinburgh, and the period from 1865 to 1872 when she was in India with her husband. When seen on the evening of the ist January, the patient, who was a lady rather above the medium height, and slender in figure, complained of very severe pain over the whole of the chest, with a constant hard dry cough. There was a slight flush upon the cheek, the skin was moist and hot, and the tongue slightly furred. The temperature in the axilla was 100°, the pulse 112 per minute, and the respirations, which were shallow and superficial, 26 per minute. Careful examination of the