14th. Much noise through the night; occasionally started out of disturbed sleep with screaming; tongue red, glazed and dry; stools passed in bed; pulse 96.
15th. Rather more sleep; talkative delirium; tongue somewhat cleaner; pulse 100.
16th. Longer and more tranquil sleep; mind more distinct; expression of eyes still dull and heavy; tongue more clean, more moist; stools only partly passed in bed.
17th. More sleep than on the preceding night; mind still more distinct; complains to-day of some tenderness of abdomen on pressure; tongue nearly clean; two stools no longer passed in bed; pulse fallen to 72.
19th. Slept well; mind clearer; eyes more animated; expression of countenance brighter; other symptoms the same.
26th. Continues to improve; skin cool, soft, and moist; pulse 78.
27th. Convalescent; but the convalescence was slow and tedious, as it almost always is after so severe an attack of cerebral disease; she was dismissed cured on the 40th day from the commencement of the attack. The reports of the 15th, 16th, and 17th days illustrate very clearly and strikingly the changes which have already been stated to indicate recovery.
Case IV.
Elizabeth Price, æt. 26, servant; admitted on 11th day of disease. Attacked with ordinary symptoms of fever: at present complains of very severe head-ache; face flushed; intolerance of light; some deafness; mind confused during night; visions of various kinds, such as “waves of the sea rolling,” appear occasionally before her with great vividness; had been on sea four days before she became ill; skin warm; sense of general soreness; abdomen rather hard, but not tender; tongue furred, rather red; much thirst; no appetite; scarcely any sleep, and, when she does, dreams of a frightful nature interrupt her rest; pulse 114, intermittent, of good power, but easily compressed; bowels constipated. C. C. ad ℥xviij. nuchæ. Abradat. Capillitium. Lot. Gelid. cap. Haust. Sennæ Sal. c. m.
12th. More sensible since cupping; mind still confused; occasional wandering; scarcely any sleep; pulse 124, sharp, yet easily compressed.