The diseases of tropical climates and their treatment : with hints for the preservation of health in the tropics / by J.A.B. Horton.

  • Horton, James Africanus Beale, 1835-1883.
Date:
1874
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Credit: The diseases of tropical climates and their treatment : with hints for the preservation of health in the tropics / by J.A.B. Horton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    posed only of muco-serous fluid. The bowels are in the generality of cases very loose^ the stool being bloody and dysenteric ; the discharge sometimes consists of a bloody serum, like the washings of flesh, sometimes of blood nearly or quite pure, and either dark coloured or unco- agulable or partially in clots. Several ounces of blood are not unfrequently lost with each evacuation. Some- times, however, the discharge is only bilious. The appearance of the patient is more or less striking; the face, hands, and feet are of a livid paleness; the features shrunk and impassive, or singularly expressive of an amazement or alarm, though still clear and even bright; “ the skin contracted and the Angers shrivelled as if long soaked (like those of a washerwoman) in soap and water; the extremities, and sometimes even the trunk, chillingly cold, though not sensibly so to the patient; the surface either partially moistened with a clammy perspiration, standiug sometimes in large isolated drops like bull« upon the face and breast, or universally bathed in a profuse cold sweat; ” the patient sufiers from uneasiness, jactitation and restlessness, sometimes com- plains of spasm of the muscles of the calves of the legs. If life be not destroyed before the second week, spots may be discovered in the skin, varying in colour, ac- cording to the amount of biliary deposits formed on the derma. In some cases the patient is seized suddenly and violently, and all the symptoms coming on in rapid suc- I cession; the great heat, intense thirst, violent throbbing, I restlessness, and racking headache continue with varied ; intensity, mingled with nnsuccessful attempts at re-