Malignant pustule ; Acute farcy or glanders in the human subject ; Cases of muscular anaesthesia? / by Alfred Carpenter.

  • Carpenter, Alfred, 1825-
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[1874]
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Credit: Malignant pustule ; Acute farcy or glanders in the human subject ; Cases of muscular anaesthesia? / by Alfred Carpenter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of the disease, and dissents from Dr, Budd’s view, believing that pain, the presence of pus, and the character of the swelling, will determine whether the case is carbuncle or pustule. It is however to be borne in mind, that pain is easily borne by one person, whilst a corresponding state is described as agony by another.] Such is a short outline of the information I have gleaned regarding the disease. I will now detail my own experience. t The First Case I ever saw came under my notice in St. Tho- mas’s Hospital, in the year 1851. I shall never forget the fnonstrous appearance of the patient; the enormously swollen lips, the livid, motionless, expressionless mouth, apparently wide open, but the teeth at the same time nearly closed ; the swollen parotids; the large size of the head from the erysipelatoid inflammation which had spread all over it; whilst the man (a3t. 36) retained his consciousness up to a few hours preceding his death, which happened six days after his admission into the hospital. The Second Case came under my own care in May, 1854. W. R, (set. 44) a grocer, noticed a spot on his lower lip, which itched a good deal; two days afterwards it was swollen, hard, stiff, and tender. When I saw him May 28th, he was feverish and depressed, and had lost his appetite: on the 29th he had a slight rigor : on the 31st the lip was excessively swollen, hot, hard, livid. On June 1st the lividity had spread to the upper lip ; the lips were wide apart. Next day the cheeks were much swollen; and on the 3rd there was extension of erysipelatoid swelling to surface over the parotid and submaxillary glands, with slight sanious discharge from the lips of a foetid character, and the power of speech was lost. The lips looked like a hard, livid, brawny ring. On the 4th the eyes were closed, and the power to swallow gone, but consciousness was still perfect. He died on June 5th, the face the day before his death looking much like the perinoeum of a fat woman during confinement, with varicose veins about the pudendum in hard labour, and just as the head of the child is about to pass from the vulva. The Third Case was that of a handsome girl (set. 22), tall, well-favored. She consulted me about a swollen lip, Nov. Gth,