ABSTRACT
The advance of fever was often so gradual that the sick were able to walk out, and transact business as usual for several days, the disease resembling a common cold; but this catarrhal affection was, in some instances, severe in the commencement of the epidemic. From the 11th to the 17th day of the disease, a tympanitic affection frequently occurred, with pain on pressure, and obstinacy of the bowels. In some places, towards the conclusion of the disease, there existed pain and tension of the epigastric and hypochondriac regions, accompanied with vomiting, tenesmus, and with bloody and mucous stools, whilst in most places no symptoms of dysentery were observable. Dr. Crampton, who inspected the province of Conaught, asserts, that fevers in that province, during the epidemic, had two sources, one spontaneous, and the other from contagion, an opinion which, he says, was entertained by most of the intelligent practitioners in the principal towns of Conaught.
