The disease usually begins, like an acute infectious disease, with fever, sometimes attended by convulsions and delirium, sometimes by considerable pain in the back, body, and limbs; occasionally by digestive disturbances, vomiting, and diarrhoea; sometimes... A System of practical medicine v. 4, 1898 - Page 133by Alfred Lebbeus Loomis - 1898Full view - About this book
| 1900 - 636 pages
...unconsciousness. There is in some cases hyperaesthesia, and severe pain on motion, especially in the joints. Within a day or two of the onset paralysis sets in, usually in one or more of the extremities ; rarely there may be paralysis of the bladder, with retention or incontinence... | |
| Moses Allen Starr - 1903 - 818 pages
...the back, body, and limbs; occasionally by digestive disturbances, vomiting, and diarrhoea; sometimes merely by general malaise. The temperature rises rapidly...rarely lasting more than a week. Within a day or two of onset paralysis sets in. This may be in both legs, or in both arms; rarely in one limb alone, or in... | |
| Moses Allen Starr - 1909 - 976 pages
...back, body, and limbs ; occasionally by digestive disturbances, vomiting, and diarrhoea; sometimes merely by general malaise. The temperature rises rapidly to 102° or 103° R, and the patient may have a chill followed by sweating. The temperature remains about 101° or 102°... | |
| Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt - 1911 - 946 pages
...the back, body, and limbs ; sometimes by digestive disturbances, vomiting and diarrhoea ; sometimes merely by general malaise. The temperature rises rapidly...the patient may have a chill followed by sweating. Sometimes the onset is very severe, the child is delirious and stuporous, and the head and back may... | |
| Moses Allen Starr - 1913 - 1038 pages
...disturbances, vomiting, and diarrhoea ; some'Frissell. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc., July 11, 1911." times merely by general malaise. The temperature rises rapidly...febrile movement rarely lasting more than a week. Within two or three days of the onset paralysis sets in. This may be in both legs, or in both arms ; rarely... | |
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