24th. No change, excepting that the vomiting ceased, after having taken a scruple of calomel at a single dose.
26th. Died.
Abdomen. Ilium and cæcum much and extensively ulcerated; other viscera healthy. Head. Membrane of brain natural; substance vascular; more serum than natural in the ventricles; some at the base; much fluid in the theca vertebralis. Thorax. Posterior part of left lung tuberculated, and infiltrated with purulent matter; upper part of right lung still more tuberculated and condensed.
Case LXXX.
Elizabeth Hammond, æt. 50, married. Admitted on the 28th day of fever, which came on with the ordinary symptoms; at present she is without pain in any organ; face peculiarly pallid; some cough; pulse 120, and weak.
29th. No tenderness of abdomen; no pain; cough; delirium; pulse 110.
32d. Cough; delirium; pain, redness, swelling, and vesication of left leg; pulse 120, weak.
35th. Tongue scarcely to be protruded; very tremulous; three stools; cough; much delirium; pulse 120, very weak; the vena saphena major easily to be traced along its whole course, being hard, tense, and painful.
40th. Delirium; muscular tremor; much convulsive twitching of the face; pulse 130, extremely weak.
40th. Delirium continues; muscular tremor increased; great prostration; leg more swollen, the tumefaction now extending up the thigh; the saphena traced to the middle of the thigh where it ends in a varix, which has for the last two days greatly enlarged; lymphatics along the course of the vein swollen; integuments of a dusky red colour; much thickening and hardening of the cellular tissue over the femoral vessels; says she has no pain in the leg; mind dull and confused, yet answers coherently when spoken to.