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This was found to relieve the hiccough somewhat.
2nd.- He seems considerably weaker, and upon approaching him, his eyelids, half-closed, allowed the lower sclerotic of the raised eyeballs to be seen. The tongue was moist and clean, and pulse 80, very weak. On speaking to him he roused up and appeared quite as usual, but soon relapsed to the torpid state again. His blood under the
1/4-inch object-glass presented from forty to sixty white corpuscles in each field, mostly scattered about, but with some patches of two or three and six or eight together.3rd.- Slept better, although the hiccough did not cease. He complains of a constricting pain about the waist; he is tender on pressure over the spleen, where no tumour is to be felt. The tongue today is dry, and beginning to be sordid, teeth dirty, pulse weak. He presents the same typhoid appearances.
4th.- Pulse weaker, dicrotic, 96; roused from the torpid state with more difficulty than yesterday. He talks very sensibly, but his wife, who watches by his bedside, states that he wanders in the night.
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The blood presents the same appearances under the microscope as before.
5th.- Hiccough continues, is more feeble, pulse scarcely perceptible, lies in a torpid and typhoid state. When roused, said he was sore all over the body. Tongue and teeth sordid.
6th.- Died quietly at 5
A.M.
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