Lectures and essays on fevers and diphtheria, 1849 to 1879 / by Sir William Jenner.

Date:
1893
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    particulars as to whether the disease began suddenly or insidiously could be obtained. Of the remaining twenty-seven cases, twenty-three were taken ill suddenly; nineteen of these twenty-three cases first kept their beds as follows:— 4 On the 1st day of the disease. 6 ,, 2nd day ,, ,, 5 ,, 3rd day ,, ,, 3 On the 4th day of the disease. 1 ,, 6th day ,, ,, Thus all these patients were confined to their beds before the 7th day. Of these twenty-three cases, when four took to their bed was not learned. In four of the twenty-seven cases of which a correct history was obtained from the patients or their friends, the disease began insidiously, so that the day of its commencement could not be exactly ascer- tained, but they took to their beds on about the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 6 th days ; so that, if this group be added to the first, every patient may be said to have been confined to bed by the 6th day; while, as we have seen, 28'5 per cent, only of the patients affected with typhoid fever took to bed before the 7 th day. DURATION. Typhoid Fever.—Seven cases were received into the hospital respectively on the 4th, 5th, 6th, 8th, 10th, 12th, and 16th days of the disease, the average day of admission being the 8-7th. Of thirteen patients, the exact duration of whose illness before they entered the hospital could not be ascertained— 1 was admitted about the 7th day of 2 were admitted on about the 15th day the disease. 9th 12th 13th 14th of the disease. 19th 21st 27th These thirteen cases were thus admitted on about the 14%5th day of the disease; one as early as about the 7th day, and one as late as about the 27th day. The disease began gradually in these thirteen cases, so that the date of its commencement could not be accurately