14th. Quiet night, with considerable sleep; head giddy and slightly painful; respiration hurried, apparently cerebral; pupils active; tongue dry; much thirst; pulse 123. Empl. Lyttæ cap.
15th. Much screaming; great restlessness during night; complains much of head-ache; pupils active; urine copious, but passed in bed; all the stools passed in bed; pulse 108, easily compressed; has visions before her almost constantly; head very hot. Four leeches have been applied to the temples this morning without relief. Affus. Frigid. cap. ℞. Hydrar. Submuriat. gr. ij. Pulv. Scillæ, gr. j. Pulv. Antimon. gr. iij. M. sumat 4tâ q. h.
16th. No screaming; head less painful, especially when in half-erect posture; mind quite sensible now, but much wandering occasionally; pulse 120, feeble; five stools passed in bed.
24th. No material change until this day; sleep now greatly improved; mind much more itself; tongue beginning to clean; pulse 93; ptyalism.
28th. Ptyalism continues; feels greatly better; appetite returning.
From this period she continued to improve, although with several threatenings of relapse; the convalescence was slow and precarious, but she ultimately left the hospital quite well, though not until the 60th day from the commencement of the fever.
Case V.
Mary Sullivan, æt. 36. Admitted on 14th day of disease; complaint commenced with shivering; pains in the limbs; severe head-ache. Complains now of violent pain of the head; face pallid; expression depressed; scarcely any sleep; abdomen tender on pressure; only one stool for eleven days; tongue foul and dry; pulse 81, not strong; complains, also, of pain under right mamma, preventing inspiration and decubitus. V.S. ad ℥xij. Lotio Gelida cap. Abrad. Capillitium.
15th. Blood with firm buff; pain of head not at all relieved; pain of back, sides, and abdomen severe; no delirium; no sleep; pulse 78, pretty strong. Hirudines viij. temporibus. Pt. Med.
16th. Pain of head much relieved; slept very much better; pulse 66, full and strong.