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Admitted 14th May, 1894, with well marked plague. On the way to hospital had vomited a considerable quantity of blood. Notwithstanding this the pulse was still full, though rapid. On the 15th she had hemorrhage from the gums. On the 16th she had more hemorrhage from the gums and considerable hemorrhage from the vagina. The breath was most offensive, having a smell like that of a patient seized with hemorrhage from a gangrenous lung. This patient had petechiæ on the arms and face and curious to relate, on the 24th May, extensive desquamation of the skin in several parts of the body was evident, but I do not think that this can be put down as a result of the plague. This woman's skin was always dry and rough, in addition to being very dirty when she came into hospital, and I have seen many similar cases in Chinese which I can only describe as dirt desquamation. No special treatment for the hemorrhage was given. The delirium in this case was very slight and it is just possible that this to some extent is accounted for by the considerable amount of blood which she lost. She was discharged cured.
Case XXIII. -Chinese.
Admitted on 16th May died on the 19th. The temperature after death rose to 108° F. the end being very rapid, and this was the nearest approach to death by hyperpyrexia that I saw during the epidemic.
Case XXIV--Chinese. Et. 18.
Admitted 19th May, 1894. Showed the following temperature chart. He died on the 31st May. This was a long period of pyrexia, complicated by boils (pyæmic abscesses) appearing on the 20th, and hemoptysis on the 26th with considerable consolidation of the left lung. In this case I consider that the pyrexia in the later stages was due to the pneumonic condition--probably pyæmic abscess of lung.
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