Eleanor Norris, æt. 12. Was seized eight days ago with sudden loss of strength, great confusion of mind, and severe pain in the head and limbs; the pain of the head continues, shooting down along the spinal cord to the loins; no tenderness of abdomen; tongue white; bowels purged; pulse 129, of good power.
9th. Tongue has become brown and dry; five stools; scarcely any pain of head; delirium; pulse 120.
14th. Abdomen now tender on pressure; tongue continues brown and dry; four stools; pain of back and loins returned; delirium; pulse 130.
15th. Pain of abdomen continues; tongue still browner and more dry; four stools; delirium; pulse 128.
16th. Deglutition difficult; pulse 120; great prostration.
17th. Stools in bed; delirium and prostration increasing; pulse scarcely to be counted.
18th. Great restlessness; much delirium; countenance wild and anxious; pulse exceedingly quick and weak.
20th. Respiration hurried and laborious; pulse not to be counted; insensible; stools in bed. Died in the night.
Abdomen. Mucous membrane of jejunum and ilium extremely ulcerated; omentum a mere web; all the other viscera healthy. Head. Membranes and substance of brain apparently natural. Thorax. [Costal pleura of left side inflamed and thickened; pulmonary pleura covered with pus; pleural sac contained two ounces and a half of serum mixed with pus; substance of left lung nearly healthy; right side healthy; two ounces of serum in pericardium.]
Case LXXXIII.