The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1878-10-16
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From the Popular Science Monthly1
p o. IT, a. III.

/ From the Popular Science Monthly
An attack OF yellow fever is generally
| quite sudden, though in some cases there
are slight premonitory symptoms, such
as loss OF appetite, general uneasiness,
headache, or costiveness It's commonly
| ushered in by chiliness, alternating with
bushes OF heat, or the person may be
overcome with langour and extreme de.
/ bllity, while at his usual occupation.
| These feelings are soon followed by fever.
and the bodily temperature rises rapidly,
often reaching 1920 Fahrenheit in a
few hours, the normal temperature being
9S.4o. The fever is accompanied by
headache, generally located immediately
over the eyes, or shooting through from
temple TO temple, and often very severe.
But the headache is frequently trivial in
comparison with the frightful pains in
the loins, which make the patient writhe
In agony. The pulse is generally full,
strong and rapid. beating from ninety to
one hundred and twenty times a minute.
The skin is hot, dry, the face flushed, the
eyes bloodshot, brilliant and watery, and
the tongue covered with creamy white
fur, but with red, clean tip and edges.
There IS usually some uneasiness of the
stomach from the first, and in from
twelve to twenty-four hours this devel-
opes into nausea and persistent sepsi-
tlveness, which will not allow ANYTHING
to be retained. The pit of the stomach
is very tender on pressure, and vomiting
Is almost lncessant. With this there IS
intense thirst, and iced drinks are ex
ceedingly grateful to the patient. The
bowels are at first generally costive, and
sometimes obstinately so, but, as the
disease progresses. they become loose.
The patient is usually very much debili-
tated, but is uneasy and losses about in
bed, and occasionally will try to rise and
walk about the room. In most cases
there is some confusion of intellect, not
amounting to delirium, and the face ex-
presses the greatest anxiety and distress
The fever continues for two or three DAYS,
being most severe in the evening, the
temperature often reaching 104o or
1000, and, according to La Roche, in
malignant cases, even 100. Then the
fever subsidies, never to return, and
the temperature within twelve hours may
become nearl y normal. The other symp-
toms mostly disappear, and the organs
resume their natural functions. All this
time, l. e., on the third or fourth day.
the yellow discoloration of the skin an
pears upon the face and thence extends
over the body. If the attack is mild,
recovery is now rapid IA the vast ma
jority of cases, however, this Iull in the
symptoms is deceitful, and lasts only
from few hours to day, when the
gravest stage of the disease sets in. The
pulse soon becomes small and thready,
beating only thirty or forty to the minute,
and the heart often works vigorously
after the pulse can no longer be felt at
the wrist. The nausea and vomiting
return and become constant, the respira-
ton Is often embarrassed, the tongue
becomes dry and brown, the skin is cool
and dry, there is often a distressing
hiccough, and the thirst is Unsuitable.
The mind is often clear, but singularly
apathetic, or there may be delirium or
stupor. The Reorganization of the
blood and the tissues has now gone so
far that the small vessels of the mucous
membranes no longer retain their con-
tents, and blood oo2es into the stomach.
This produces intense nausea, and the
blood is vomited up, changed in color by
the acids with which it is mingled. This
forms the dreadful "blacIs vomit," and
varies in hue from brown to almost let
black, generally appearing like coffee
grounds floating in a thin, watery fluid.
The urine, which becomes scanty early
in the disease, may now be entirely sup.
pressed, or if excreted at all, is black
opI hlnnAxy H. Il
skin increases, until the body is of a
dusky brown, livid or mahogany color,
and there are frequent hemorrhages from
the mouth, nose, eyes, or even under the
skin, forming livid spots and blotches.
The body now exhalesa cadaverous odor,
the tendons of the wrist twitch convuI-
sively, hicoough is constant, the features
are pinched and CHASTITY, cold sweats
come on, and the patient passes away in
commissions or coma, though occasionally
he regains his intellectual faculties un-
impaired to the last.