April 1,

CASES PROM PEACTICE.

1868.]

CASE OF FATAL MELJENA. By Surgeon A. M.

Tippktts,

Battalion, H. Jl.'s 5th Fusiliers. As the subject of melsnn, and its relation to scorbutic taint, be creating some interest just now, I send you the following case, which occurred hist autumn in my regiment. Mrs. B., a healthy young Englishwoman, aged 21, arrived in India in December 1866. Slie suffered in September last from a slight attack of remittent fever. On the 5th of the month she had considerable diarrhoea, which, however, stopped towards evening. On visiting her in the evening of the 6th, I found her feverish and irritable, and recommended her (as she had a child to look after, and her husband was also ill) to go to the Female Hospital. She did so, and was seen by the Apothecary at 6 p. jr., and also at 9 i\ M., when she was free from fever, and expressed herself as being better than she had been for some time. At 1-30 a. m. on the morning of the 7th, the Apothecary was called to her, and found her, as he described to me, as if in collapse from cholera, and passing large quantities of dark-colored blood. This continued till about 2 a. si., when she died. I may add that plenty of vegetables of all kinds had been served to the regiment for the whole year, and that the above patient had been living as nurse to a lady in the regiment for some months previous to her attack of fever, and that consequently her food had been of a better quality than it might have been in barracks. seems to

Fikozpooh,

15th

February,

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