Head. Arachnoid vascular; substance of brain vascular; sheath covering the lumbar portion of the spinal cord highly vascular; cord itself natural; effusion into the lateral ventricles; plexus choroides and velum interpositum highly vascular; pituitary gland gritty. Thorax. Mucous membrane of bronchi inflamed; substance of left lung intensely inflamed, being nearly as red as muscle and its lobes adherent; [corresponding side of pericardium highly vascular; right lung slightly inflamed; right pleuræ not adherent; left adherent throughout.] Abdomen. Patches of vascularity in mucous membrane of intestines and over their peritoneal coat; pyloric end of stomach vascular; spleen soft; other viscera healthy.
Case XCVI.
Joseph Baird, æt. 12. Admitted on the 22d day of fever; slight pain of head; severe pain across the loins; no uneasiness in chest; no cough; respirations 44; abdomen tender; tongue red, parched; bowels purged; pulse 134.
33d. Abdomen tender, tumid, tense; four stools; tongue loaded with white fur; mind distinct; scarcely any sleep; extremely fretful.
34th. No delirium; stools in bed; pulse 114. Died next day.
Head. Membranes and substance of the brain vascular; at the surface of the right posterior lobe, an abscess of considerable size, the floor of which was formed by the pia mater; gelatinous effusion between the arachnoid and the pia mater. Thorax. Mucous membrane of bronchi vascular; substance of lungs healthy; [left cavity of pleuræ contained eight ounces of bloody serum; right six.] Abdomen. Peritoneal and mucous coats of jejunum and ileum vascular; mesenteric glands greatly enlarged; several of them suppurated; [large quantity of serum mixed with pus in the peritoneal cavity; omentum much thickened; adhered to the superior portion of the spleen; to the edge of the left lobe of the liver, and to the portion of the diaphragm immediately above the spleen; in this manner it formed the external boundary of an abscess of considerable size in the substance of the spleen; portions of the sac itself ulcerated; the rest of the spleen nodulated; these nodules when cut into were found to consist chiefly of puriform matter contained in cells; thoracic duct enlarged; receptaculum chyli exceedingly enlarged and ulcerated.]
Case XCVII.
Catherine French, æt. 24. Admitted on the 9th day of scarlet fever. Complaint came on with sudden loss of strength, shivering and violent pain of head and chest: at present throat sore; deglutition difficult; some pain of chest; great tenderness of abdomen; nausea and vomiting; tongue dry, brown and cracked; slight pain of head; eyes dull, heavy and suffused; pulse 104, pretty strong; no eruption.
23d. The pain of throat, the difficult deglutition, the tenderness of the abdomen had disappeared; the pulse had fallen to 90, and she appeared to be gradually recovering until this day, when, preceded by a slight return of sore throat, erysipelas appeared on the face; no pain of head; tongue again brown and dry; pulse 96.
24th. No sleep; delirium; erysipelas extending; pulse 108.