A history of the erysipelatous inflammation that recently appeared in the Massachusetts General Hospital / by George Hayward.

  • Hayward, George, 1791-1863.
Date:
[1827?]
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Credit: A history of the erysipelatous inflammation that recently appeared in the Massachusetts General Hospital / by George Hayward. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    right leg. This extended to the thigh, and afterwards ap- peared on the head and face. It began to subside on the 23d, was very slight by the 26th, and on the 30th he was entirely well. 8. On the 29th of September, a man, of a bad habit of body, with an ulcer of long standing about the tendo Achil- lis, was admitted into the upper ward of the other side of the house, as remote as possible from'the place in which the disease had hitherto appeared. On the 3d of October, erysipelas was discovered on the leg about the ankle, and in course of the day extended up to the groin. It was more ex- tensive on the following day,—the mind was wandering, the pulse feeble and rapid, the tongue parched, and the skin hot and dry. All his symptoms had gradually become worse till the 7th, when vesications appeared on the limb, and he con- tinued to sink till the 10th, when he died. This patient's system was much impaired by intemperance. 9. A medical patient, who was convalescent, was attacked with erysipelas about the right ear on the 26th of October. It extended on to the side of the face and temple, down the neck, and upon the scalp, with considerable redness and swelling, and some vesication. In a day or two the disease subsided in some measure on this side, and appeared in a much milder form on the other. It never assumed a very serious aspect, and entirely subsided by the 31st, and he was discharged well on the 11th of December. 10. A girl, of about 15 years of age, with scrophulous ophthalmia, was affected with erysipelas on the face about the last of October. The disease in her case was compara- tively mild, and nothing unusual occurred in the course of it. It continued four or five days only, without any violent con- stitutional symptoms, and at the end of that period, she was as well as usual. 11. A healthy girl, eighteen years old, who had been in the hospital a few weeks with an ulcer on the leg, was at- tacked with erysipelas about the head, on the 7th of No- vember. It extended over the whole face in the course of two or three days, so as to close the eyes, and produced an