The course in fatal cases is rapid, death generally taking place within six hours.
There are occasional deviations from this picture; tetanic strychnine-like convulsions have been noticed and a condition of excitement in the non-fatal cases as if from alcohol; in still rarer cases temporary mania has been produced.
In fatal cases, some signs of an irritant or inflammatory action on the mucous membranes of the stomach and intestines would be probable.
Fatal cases of "ague and remittent fever" were also more numerous than usual.
In Berlin, for {247} instance, the largest number of fatal cases occurs in October, while in Munich it does not occur until February.
It may prove fatal within two or three days, though life is usually prolonged for several days, even in fatal cases.
Attacks of syncope appear, and in fatal cases--which are not common--death results from asthenia.
The expression of the patient is anxious, the abdominal muscles rigid, and, in fatal cases, the prostration becomes rapidly extreme.
If 15 fatal cases, in which death took place within twenty-four hours of the first injection, be deducted, the mortality falls to 15.
The number of fatal cases is less when antitoxin is used early in the illness than in those which do not receive it until a later period.
In this bustee, about the end of March, 2 fatal cases of cholera and 2 cases of choleraic diarrhoea occurred.
In fact, while regarded as a lung disease, we are now coming to recognize that the actual cause of death in fatal cases is the overwhelming of the heart by the toxins or poisons poured into the circulation from the affected lung.
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