Case XVII.
Margaret Gibbs, æt. 63, widow, admitted on the 43rd day of fever. Pain of head still considerable; sleeps badly; pain of chest on right side; much cough, with purulent expectoration; abdomen tender; tongue loaded, dry; pulse 105.
45th. Pain gone; drowsiness, approaching to coma; no delirium; pulse 100.
48th. Insensibility continues; cough, with bloody sputa; pulse 108.
55th. Prostration; pulse 135, extremely weak; skin cold and clammy.
57th. Died.
Head. Arachnoid opake, with gelatinous effusion beneath it; adherent to the dura mater along the longitudinal sinus; substance of brain vascular. Thorax. [Pleuræ adherent; slight effusion in left side; substance of lower lobes partly gorged, partly hepatized; melanotic deposits in the parenchyma. Abdomen. Both ovaria dropsical; partly converted into cartilage; scirrhous tumour in walls of uterus.]
Case XVIII.
Elizabeth Ralph, æt. 65, widow, admitted on the 8th day of fever. From commencement, severe pain of head and abdomen; both continue; mind confused; scarcely any sleep; tongue foul and dry; much thirst; bowels purged; pulse 105.
9th. Pain of head diminished; that of abdomen unrelieved; 8 stools; pulse 108.