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was
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opinion that, although the fever of last summer. probably endemic, it was not peculiar to this place . In illustration of this opinion, will place in juxtaposition with. a-case and
is given by Dr Gordon, a case recorded
Ropical Climates by
his remarks
in Johnson's work on c
Mr. Shields, which-occurred in Batavia, in the mouth of August 1888, together with that gentleman's remarks
Mr Shivids' statement. Dr.
7. Gordon's statement.
t- and insidious
"Never was there a dikase "The fiver was of a very
deceitful I have frequently
as this fever... malignant-
instances whire
symptom
dee n
character, ****
the
every symptoms changing for to favnable the
coas do
that I could have
almost pronounced
my
patient out of danger;
100142.
suddenly,
and without warning
either to the medical_
attendant or the patient-
when, all at once, he himself, although often
would be seized.
with visited, and apparently
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90
resttiferass, black vomiting much improved, bith in delirium, and convulsions, feeling and appearance, few hours half an hour previous
which
in, a...
would hurry him out
of existence !
"This was the
to his death, when he would suddenly
become strongly conveleed,
case with. Mr Broughton his skin- intensely hot- purser of the Daedalus and dry, the surface the Batavien assuming
who died of the Batavion
endemic at Edam-
---
d.
livid.
hue; thus the scene
hospital. On the seventh would close. !
-
day of his illness he took" "Colour - sergeant - change for the better; Staley, a stout
and everything
was
promising. The morning
before he died he
healthy young man,
was admitted on
the
morning of the 17th.
expreseed himself greatly of June, in the cold
relieved; and called for stage of intermittent
some mutton. broth
and.
Lago,
both of
fever, and in about
Lia-
hoves had
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