25th. No change, excepting that the pulse (78) is rather more strong, and she is scarcely so prostrate.
26th. Skin again hot; tongue again red and dry; no sleep; some delirium; pulse 84, of more strength.
27th. Skin more cool; tongue less red and more moist; pulse 66; some return of appetite.
28th. Cough much diminished; expectorates less; tongue moist, clean, and nearly of natural colour; pulse 72, stronger; countenance more animated.
35th. Cough nearly gone; expectoration much diminished; tongue clean; one stool; countenance improving; strength increasing; wishes for meat; two ounces were allowed.
40th. Sloughs on sacrum and ilium doing well; pulse 90, of more power; still noisy during sleep.
From this period she continued slowly, although gradually, to gain strength, and was dismissed from the hospital on the 57th day, cured.
Case VII.
Angelica Fidgett, æt. 29, married. Admitted on the 16th day of fever. Before admission affected with cold, shivering, sense of faintness, pain of head, uneasiness of chest, and cough. On admission, pain of chest increased by deep inspiration and by cough; cough frequent; pain of the head already subsided: there remain only a sense of weight over the eyes, the expression of which is dull, heavy, and vacant; frequent moaning; no pain of the abdomen on full pressure; pulse 129; tongue foul, moist; skin hot; face flushed.
17th. Respiration slow and laborious; cough; completely comatose; eyes suffused; pulse 120, full, soft; face flushed.