Subconjunctival Ecchymosis Due to Whooping Cough
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Sir,?Would you kindly find a little space in your journal to publish the following case of severe sub conjunctival ecchymos is due to " Whooping Cougli." It may interest some of your readers at least, as this complication does not often arise. The other day while I was sitting in iny dispens.uy, a girl, aged about 5 years, was brought to me for treatment of her eyes, which were terribly red and swelled up, as if shooting out from the eye pit, the eyelids were dark blue she complained of no pain and discomfort. Many eye drops were tried by the quacks and other private practitioners, but obviously to no effectHistory from her mother states that she had been suffering only from a peculiar fit of cough?generally during night and early hours of the morning, with but little expectoration occasionally tinged with blood. But since last 3 days her eyes began to be red and was increasing till reached the present stage. On auscultation, only a few stray rhonchi were found here and there, otherwise her chest and all other organs are perfectly sound. She sometimes gets a little high temperature during nightShe had a fit of coughiug before me and evidently it was "Whooping Cough." On further enquiry it was made out that there are many children of the same village, suffering from the identical fit of cough, but without any complication, out of which 4 died. As it is an outdoor dispensary I compelled them to live somewhere near the dispensary for my observation. On the 8th day, her cough nearly gone and the eccliymosis nearly disappeared and she was perfectly cured on the 12th day. She is now a jolly little girl as before. I send a brief detail of my method of treatment
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