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Full text of "The Science of Therapeutics: According to the Principles of Homeopath...Page 509 of 653The febrile irritation is rather of the typhoid than of the sthentype, the pulse being soft, rapid and sometimes irregular. Painmore frequently exists in the epigastric, occasionally in the umbical or hypochondriac regions. It is sometimes intolerable, whilein cases of imminent danger the symptom may be entirely wanting.Diarrhoea, or dysentery, may accompany this stage, but constipatiis more common. Burning in the pit of the stomach, acid and acrideructations^ flatulence, thirst, nausea, all combine to produce aremarkable sense of prostration, and a great degree of tossing ansleeplessness. The skin and conjunctiva assume a light lemonwhich deepens into a deep orange or gamboge color, although thissymptom ifi( by no means universal. The urine is of a sulphur orfron yellow, and stains linen. Sometimes there is slight strangurand in bad cases the secretion of urine is totally suppressed. Herhage from the gums and fauces or other mucous membranes isnow common. Vomiting becomes a distressing and an alarmingsymptom. The matters ejected pass from a greenish-yellow intoa brownish or claret-colored hue ; sometimes blood, red, dark, orbrown, is thrown up. The appearance of coftee-ground vomitleaves but a ray of hope. Still the patient may recover througha tardy convalescence, very liable to relapse. If the disease benot arrested, the temperature of the skin falls, the hemorrhagebecomes more profuse or ominous, the circulation fails, extremejactitation comes on, delirium or coma supervenes, and dissola606 Epidemic and Endemic Infectious Diseases.tion is occasionally preceded by general convulsions. The pat) mtseemed generally to be worst on the first, third, and fifth ("aysDeath appeared to be more common on the sixth, but some fewdied as early as the third day, and many lingered beyond a i#eek.Several cases terminated in dysentery and a good number in common intermittent fever."The above sketch is purely typical, the symptoms of «rhichwould not be presented by any one single case." I will now mention some local featur^ of importance whichhave come under my own observation.^^ Head. The headache was severe during the first pai )xyflra,but abated during the remission, seldom to return and L/>ver toresume its prior intensity. It was throbbing, boring, witl a senstion of undulation in the cranium. There was commonlj sorenessof the eye-balls in motion, sometimes photophobia, and iL one casviolent earache. There was sometimes a sensation as if the headwas very much enlarged. In a few cases the headache wj»8 general,but was mostly referred to the supra-orbital region. I believe itwill usually be found that, when the organic function* bear thebrunt of the disease, the headache will be referred t«»rior part of the cranium, while the derangements of animal lifeare rather displayed by vertical and occipital headache." Eyes. The redness, brilliancy, and watery suiFusion of the eyeis more marked in the first stage of yellow fever than in any ofallied diseases. «" Mouth. Spontaneous ptyalism sometimes occurred, one or twohttp://www.archive.org/stream/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog/sciencetherapeu00kafkgoog_djvu.txt