Volume 4

Medical inquiries and observations / by Benjamin Rush.

Date:
1805
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Credit: Medical inquiries and observations / by Benjamin Rush. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » skin, cold hands and feet, and obstructed excre- tions. 4. There were divided or mixed cases, in which the pulse was active until the 4th day, after which it became depressed. All the other symptoms of the locked state of the fever accompanied this de- pressed state of the pulse. V 5. There were cases in which the pulse imparted a perception like that of a soft and shattered quill. I have before mentioned that this state of the pulse occurred in Dr. Jones and Dr. Dobell. I felt it but once, and on the day of his attack, in the latter gentleman, and expressed my opinion of his ex- treme danger to one of my pupils upon my return from visiting him. I did not meet with a case which terminated favourably, where I perceived this shattered pulse. A disposition to sweat occurred in this state of the fever. 6. There were what Dr. Caldwell happily called *walking cases. The patients here were flushed or pale, had a full or tense pulse, but complained oi no pain, had a good appetite, and walked about their rooms or houses, as if they were but little indis- posed, until a day or two, and, in some instances, until a few hours before they died. We speak of