Zymotic diseases : their correlation and causation / By A. Wolff.

  • Wolff, Abraham, 1819-1892.
Date:
1872
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Credit: Zymotic diseases : their correlation and causation / By A. Wolff. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    as the vomiting and purging continue, the matter expelled consists of a clear serous fluid rendered slightly turbid by a white flocculent matter; soon violent and most painful cramps set in, commencing in the hands and feet, and extending to the legs and arms; the belly of the muscle is contracted into a hard ball, causing intense suffering; the skin is cold and covered with a clammy sweat;* but there is a sensation of intense heat about the pit of stomach, and there is great thirst. The drink taken to allay this thirst is immediately expelled from the stomach; the change in the aspect of the patient is great from its extent, and startling from the sud- denness with which it has occurred; within a very few hours from the commencement of the attack— sometimes within a single hour—he appears to have aged by many years; the features are sharpened in outline, there is a circle of livid darkness round the eyes, which appear deeply sunk in their sockets— the cornese are hazy and flaccid, like those of a body that has been dead for some hours; the hands and nails have a bluish tinge, and the skin of the fingers is corrugated as if it had been immersed for hours in water; the voice is quite changed; it has become husky and whispering; the vomiting and * This coldness is not merely a sensation ; there is a decided and very considerable diminution of temperature that has been known to fall as low as 83° Fah.