Diphtheria : its symptoms and treatment / by William Jenner.

  • Jenner, William, Sir, 1815-1898.
Date:
1861
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Credit: Diphtheria : its symptoms and treatment / by William Jenner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    when she was considered convalescent, though weak. Mr. Adams informed me, that instead of gaining she lost power. She was removed to the country on the 23rd, but grew less and less able to support herself, and died, so far as Mr. Adams and I could gather, from general loss of nervous power on the 4th of March. The day before her death, she had been taken out of doors. On the 1st of March, another boy of the same family, aged five-and-a-half years, began to suffer with his throat; he died on the 6th of March from extension of the exudative inflammation to the larynx. This boy was attacked, and died in the country, where he had been sent with his elder sister on the 31st of January. Miss CL, aged twelve years, the eldest of the same family, sickened from diphtheria, on the 8th of February, while with her brother in the country. She was considered to be convalescent on the 22nd, and returned to London March 7th. At this date her parents thought her quite well. She gradually, however, fell into the state in which I saw her on the 17th of March; at that time she looked in tolerable health; there was no emaciation, and only moderate pallor of the skin and mucous membranes. To walk, however, a