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38 Nýggir tilburðir við tuberklasjúkum í Eiðis læknadømi
When the initial fever sets in, rather often a mild and brief tonsillitis
is to be seen. Occasionally there may be a brief hoarseness and a little
hacking cough, which may be dry or attended by a sparse sputum. On
rare occasions larger quantities are coughed up — up to 40 cm3 a day.
Sometimes stray wheezy sounds or rales are heard, fine crepitation
or friction sounds over a more or less wide area. The initial fever
may be initiated with diarrhea, 2 boys, both under 1, had an enlarged
spleen. A boy of 6 had a stiffness of the neck and Kernig’s Symptom
without meningitis.
4 cases of meningitis tubercul. are known. In 2 of these, đ 9 years
and 9 19 years, initial fever and meningitis passed gradually into
each other and led to death 4—5 weeks after the first day of the
disease. A boy of 1 died of tub. miliaris, and a man of 42 was for
some time ill with tub. miliaris peritonei.
There were 106 cases of initial fever. Of these, 20°/o got pleuritis
exs. tub., the children’s percentage was 17, that of the adults, 22
(Table 2). Pleurisy cases in all: 73 (Table 3) — 59°/o rightssided, 41 °/o
left*sided. In Table 4, initial fever and pleurisy are compared. The
former culminates at the ages of 15—19, the latter has its greatest inci«
dence between the ages of 20 and 29.
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