Thus, the mother of a boy who had died of the fully-developed disease "complained of the head and back and limbs, and of chilliness, and presented a petechial eruption.
A petechial eruption was observed, in some instances, between the fourth and seventh days.
When it first appeared in New England a large proportion of the cases, and especially of the grave cases, exhibited petechial eruptions and ecchymotic spots, whence the disease presently received the name of spotted fever.
He moreover pointed out very clearly the distinctions between this disease and another to which he gave the name of "putrid, malignant, petechial fever," and which was unquestionably typhus.
He particularly insisted on the marked difference between the petechial eruption of typhus and the rose-colored eruption of typhoid fever.
They were gorged with blood, of a violet or black colour, and presented many petechial spots, like small ecchymoses.
Upon the skin are found petechial and livid spots, pallor being occasionally noted.
In connection with enfeeblement of the circulation, a tendency to hemorrhagic conditions is common, with purpuric and petechial eruptions in some cases.
A few petechial spots (Tardieu’s spots) are apt to be found underneath the pericardium in the heart tissue and sometimes beneath the pleura.
It may also complicate some general diseases, especially infectious diseases, as anthrax, influenza, rabies, or petechial fever.
What English and American physicians call typhus or typhus fever is known to European physicians under the name of exanthematic or petechial typhus, indicating a symptom by which it is distinguished from abdominal typhus.
The hair also becomes thin and dry, and there is a tendency for petechial hemorrhages to develop at the roots.
The test is considered to be "positive" when the forearm shows many petechial spots.
In both scurvy and in exudative diathesis eczema and petechial hemorrhages are encountered.
There is a difference of opinion as to how frequently petechial hemorrhages occur in scurvy, particularly as to whether they are encountered early in this disorder.
In the cases reported in 1914 by Hess and Fish, petechial hemorrhages were frequently an early sign, to such an extent that they led to a study of the blood and blood-vessels in this disorder.
A few days later petechial spots appeared at the site of the eczema.
Petechial hemorrhages were distributed over the back and limbs, and a large patch of extravasated blood was found in the region of the left hip.
The petechial fever in Italy in 1505 was a form of the sweating sickness.
An acute, infectious non-contagious disease, occurs sporadically, epidemically and endemically characterized by hyperemia of the brain and spinal cord, and sometimes attended by a petechial eruption.
There occurs in quite a number of cases a petechial eruption; the purpuric spots may be quite profuse, or but one or two may be seen.
In three instances the animals died, presenting on the ears distinct evidences of the formation of petechial extravasations.
Where the petechial eruption of purpura simplex is well marked, where the internal hemorrhages of purpura haemorrhagica are copious, the inquiries of the observer will usually lead him to correct conclusions.
He mentions the petechial fever as being frequent next in January and February, 1736, corresponding to a bad time of it in Huxham's Plymouth annals.
In April it is called the petechial and miliary fever, the miliary eruption being of a white sort with a very noisome scent; the petechial spots turned livid, black and gangrenous; few patients escaped who had been sweated at the beginning.
In some cases there were petechial spots as well as a stupor.
Autopsy: Liver showed areas of degeneration; kidneys congestion and petechial hemorrhage on cortex; small and large intestines, inflammation marked; bladder distended.
There may be a peculiar dropsical swelling of these petechial spots or it may show itself in connection with the eyes and there may be blood extravasation without outer symptoms.
Use of the volatile alcaline Salts, in Fevers of the putrid, pestilential, or petechial kind, as being apt to heat too much, and to hasten the Dissolution and consequent Putrefaction of the Blood.
In January 1762, one Patient, ill of the Petechial Fever at Bremen, had a Lividness and Blackness, threatning a Mortification, which appeared at the End of his Nose.
Petechial Fever which had been frequent the three foregoing Years; in which the Petechiae appeared commonly on the fourth or seventh Days, and almost all those died in whom they appeared on the first Day.
The Malignant or Hospital Fever, and Petechial, seemed to me to be entirely the same Disorder, and the Petechial Spots to be only a Symptom which appeared sometimes, but not always.
In a few Days afterwards, two Soldiers in other Hospitals, towards the Decline of very bad Petechial Fevers, had likewise Buboes formed in the Groin, without any Suspicion of a venereal Taint.
In the evening of the same day he complained of great pain and soreness about his stomach, and at this time the whole surface of the skin was nearly covered with a rash and petechial spots of different colours and sizes.
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