Reports And Further Reports On Cerebrospinal Fever PDF Download

Excerpt from Report of a Committee of the Massachusetts Medical Society on Spotted Fever or Cerebrospinal Meningitis in the State of Massachusetts: May, 1866 The eruption which gave the name of Spotted Fever to the disease was not constant, and was less frequent in the year 1808 - 9, than in the two years preceding. Dr. Henry Fish, giving an account of the disease in Hartford in 1809, says that in that place it was without Spots, at least before death. The Committee of 1810 say it was not easy to de termine in how large a proportion of subjects the skin was affected with spots and eruptions. One of their observers had seen only four' instances of cutaneous affection in eighty cases, while another estimated it to have occurred in two thirds of all his cases. This last reporter, however, we are told, included very Slight affections. As to the character of the eruptions, the Committee say they were very various: Such as red Spots only, miliary erap tions, blotches, vesicles, sometimes resembling blood blis ters, pustules, and rarely purpura, petechias, or vibices. Sometimes there was an appearance like measles. Dr. Strong says the Spots did not rise above the surface, nor recede upon pressure. They appeared upon the face, neck, and extremities, and frequently over the whole body. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.