N.B. In this case, the erysipelas evidently extended from the external skin to the mucous membrane of the throat and larynx, an event which is not very common in fever, but which does occasionally happen. The affection of the elbow-joint was clearly of the same nature as that described in case 51.
Case LIX.
Charles Tyler, æt. 54, chocolate maker, admitted on the 7th day of fever. No pain of chest; slight cough; abdomen tender; tongue loaded and dry; thirst; bowels loose; no pain of head; much pain of loins; some vertigo; mind distinct; no sleep; pulse 90, full and firm. V.S. ad ℥xx.
8th. Pain of head and abdomen gone; pulse 102, full and sharp; blood with very firm buff. Repr. V.S. ad ℥xij.
11th. No return of pain in any organ; mind confused; no sleep; great restlessness; delirium; muscular tremor; respiration short and hurried, with mucous rattle; tongue white and dry; pulse too indistinct to be counted.
12th. Delirium became exceedingly violent soon after yesterday’s visit; there was neither pain nor cough, but he passed by the mouth a considerable quantity of fluid blood; respiration became more and more hurried and he died in the evening.
Thorax. Mucous membrane of the trachea and bronchi inflamed; [the substance of the left lung studded with nodules, consisting of coagulated blood, forming the apoplexia pulmonalis of the French writers:] viscera of the head and abdomen healthy.
Case LX.
John Wotton, æt. 46, plaisterer. Admitted on the 7th day of fever: attack commenced with chilliness, succeeded by cough and severe pain in the region of the heart; has had two similar attacks of pain which he soon recovered; at present he has so much pain in the side that he cannot take a full inspiration; frequent cough exciting pain; respiration short and painful; abdomen not tender; tongue white and moist; pain of head; little sleep; pulse 120, full and hard; skin hot.
8th. Pain of chest diminished; can take full inspiration with less uneasiness; cough less frequent; respiration little changed; pulse 102, intermittent.