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Show IlIorbz'd anatomy of fever. deed occur in small number. But aselection, such the congestion was inconsiderable; and in others the brain was found in its natural state. This is the report of Dr. Vieusseux (Corvisart xi. 136.) who calls the disorderfievre cerebale maligne non above all, their inferences from the state of the sensorial functions ought to be brought to a new hearing. Two separate and well-authenticated accounts of a disorder that gave great alarm at Geneva, early in 1805, though perhaps it did not seize so many as 150 persons, nor destroy sown n'i‘um l I , . l l 47 contagieusc. Dr. Matthey, the other reporter, gives an account very similar, and, but for the suddenness of attack, would refer the disease to the fienre ataxigue cerebrale of Pine]. In 3 children, he says, that died in less than 24 hours, nothing particular was found but slight congestion of blood in the membranes of the brain. A person aged 52 had shiverings, headache, warm moist skin, frequent contracted pulse, loss of speech, quite 40, mayin some degree supply the want ofdissections in Dr. Wendelstadte's account of the greater epidemic at Wetzlar. This disorder began with sudden, and frequently extreme prostration of strength; pulse weak, small and frequent, sometimes nearly obliterated; hard and full in a few cases; Violent pain of the head, particularly in the forehead; afterwards sickness with green vomiting; rigidity of the spine; in children convulsions. In threatening moaning, pain in the wrists and forearm, contractions of the muscles of the arm, convul- cases, loss of consciousness succeeded. It ended plexus deep red. both wars between 12 hours and 5 days. Some- lobes and interiorly, puriform matter without times it had the lengthened course of a common .1. n" p. v ‘ . . . r' bimonstexei. On dissection a congestion 01 alteration of the texture of the brain; the same blood was found in the brain without any particular alteration in the other viscera. In some, the ,,_.3_._.fi,_ v.» {en-u". as shall truly represent all that has yet been discovered in the gross by the curious observers of epidemics, will serve as a check upon hasty opinions. Some light may perhaps be drawn from analogies, to which neither the German nor the English writer have attended. And * _w_«.r4i 46 sions of the eyes, with dilatation of the pupils.* Slow depressed pulse succeeded, with fits of de- lirium, encreasing stupor, throbbing of the carotids, tremors, constant agitation of the head. ‘Death early on the 6th day. The vessels of the meninges were found strongly infarcted, v a bloody gelatinous fluid was spread over the whole brain; liquid in the ventricles, choroid At the posterior part of the at the thalamus nervorum opticorum, and ex", . . nal paupz . In the origi eres, an uncorrected error fOF pupzlles, Ipresume. tending ‘mm " M058} ' l. |