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.In one such case the fever lasted seven days, when the eruption of itch re-appeared and stopped the fever.)(73 A boy of 15 years for a long time had tinea capitis and had received from Pelargus a strong purgative to cure it; he was seized with pain in the back, cutting pains during micturition, followed by tertian fever.)(74 Old people have especially dry itch, and if this is driven off by external applications usually quartan fever ensues, which vanishes as soon as the itch re-appears on the skin.)(75 A count, 57 years old, had suffered for three years with dry itch.It was driven off, and he enjoyed for two years an apparently good health only he had during this time two attacks of vertigo, which gradually so increased that once after finishing his meal he was seized with such vertigo that he would have fallen to the floor if he had not been supported.He was covered with an icy perspiration, his limbs trembled, all the parts of his body were as dead, and he repeatedly vomited up a sour substance.A similar attack followed six weeks later, then once a month for three months.He indeed retained consciousness, but there always followed heaviness of the head and a drunken stupor.At last these attacks came daily, though in a milder form.He could not read nor think nor turn around quickly nor stoop down.This wis attended with sadness, sorrowful, anxious thoughts and sighs.)(P28)Epilepsy Like Vertigo, Fr.Hoffmann, as ab., P.30.76Convulsions, Juncker, as ab.tab.53.Hoechstetter, Eph.Nat.Cur.Dec.8, Cas.3.Eph.nat.cur.dec.2, ann.obs.35, and ann.5, obs.224.D.W.Triller.Welle, Diss.nullam medicinam interdum esse optimam, Viteb., 1754, 13, 14.77 Sicelius, Decas Casuum I., Cas.5.78 Pelargus, as ab., Jahrg., 1723, P.545.79(76 A woman of 36 years had the itch driven from the skin a few years before with mercurial remedies.Her menses became irregular, and were often interrupted for ten or even fifteen weeks; she was at the same time constipated.Four years ago during pregnancy she was seized with vertigo, and she would suddenly fall down while standing or walking.While sitting she would retain her senses during the vertigo and could speak, eat and drink.At her first attack she felt in her left foot, as it were, a crawling sensation and formication, which terminated in a violent jerking up and down of the feet.In time these attacks took away consciousness, and afterwards in travelling in a carriage there came an attack of real epilepsy which returned thrice in the following winter.During these attacks she could not speak; she did not indeed turn her thumbs inward, but yet there was foam at her month.The sensation of formication in the left foot announced the attack, and when this sensation reached the pit of the stomach it suddenly brought on the fit.This epilepsy was removed by a woman with five powders, but instead of it her vertigo reappeared, but much more violently than before.It also commenced with a crawling sensation in the left foot, which rose up to the heart; this was attended with great anxiety and fear, as if she were falling down from a height, and while supposing that she had fallen she lost consciousness and speech; at the same time her limbs moved convulsively.But also outside of these attacks the least touch of her feet caused her the most intense pain as if from a boil.This was attended with severe pains and heat in the head and with loss of memory.)(77 After an itch driven away by ointment there followed with a girl a most profound swoon and soon after the most terrible convulsions and death.)(78 A girl of 17, in consequence of tinea capitis which disappeared of itself, was seized with continual heat in the head and attacks of headache.She sometimes suddenly started up as if from fright, and while awake she was seized with convulsive motions of the limbs, especially of the arms and hands, as also with oppression in the pit of the stomach as if her breast was laced together; with moaning; then her limbs would jerk convulsively and she would start up.)(P29)(79 A full-grown man who had been for some time affected with tremor of the hands had his tinea dry up.He was thereupon seized with great lassitude and red patches without heat broke out on his body.The tremor passed over into convulsive shaking, bloody matter was discharged from his nose and his ears, he also coughed up blood, and he died on the 23d day amidst convulsions.)Epileptic Convulsions and Epilepsy, J.C.Carl in Act.Nat.Cur.VI., obs.16.80 E.Hagendorn, as above, hist.9.81 Fr.Hoffnann, Consult.med.I., Cas.31.82; ibid.med.rat.syst.T.IV., P.111., Cab.I., and in Kinderkranjheiten, P.108.Sauvages, Nosol.spec.II.de Hautesierk, obs.T.II., P.300.Sennert, prax.III., Cap.44.Eph.Nat.Cur.Dec.III
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