ACUTE GLOSSITIS COMPLICATING A CASE OF TYPHOID FEVER.

A Case of Hemiplegia Complicating Typhoid Fever

Hemiplegia is one of the rare complications of typhoid fever. Osier and McCrae in their " Modern Medicine," 3rd edition, do not giv? any actual figures. Tice, in his 11 Practice ol Medicine," quotes 42 cases collected by Smithies of which six were fatal. Whatever the actual number of cases, cerebral lesions complicating typhoid are sufficiently uncommon to call for note. A girl of fourteen year...

A Case of Gangrene Complicating Typhoid Fever

fever with headache, the fever being continuous and high for three weeks, then becoming intermittent for 10 days. During the' period of high fever, he was semicomatose. When the fever had been intermittent for a few days, the toes of both feet became quite cold and numb, and the following day both feet were greatly swollen to just above the ankles. Five days later a burning sensation was felt i...

A Case of Acute Glossitis

101 degrees, and the pulse rate was 120 per minute. There was severe pyorrhoea alveolaris and the lower central incisors were loose. There was also salivation. A history of pyrexia for nearly 16 days with the temperature coming on every other day was given. She was under native treatment all the while. She developed the swelling of the tongue about 4 days before in a mild form; this; subsided a...

A Case of Acute Glossitis

A Case of Acute Glossitis

was brought to hospital on the morning of t'he 7th May 1926, with his tongue enormously swollen. The history was that this condition had started insidiously the previous night. So enormously swollen was the tongue that the boy could not completely close his mouth, and it was impossible to see the back of his throat. Respiration was carried on through the nose, and was 26 per minute, while the p...