Miss B---- was a singer at one of our large theatres, and had a part
assigned to her in a new opera. Not liking it, she worried herself into an
access of influenza, which unluckily seized her the first night the opera
was to have been played.
But the most marked case was that of Mr. C----, a clerk in a city house of
business, who was attacked and cured within three days. It appeared that
he had been dining that afternoon with some friends, who were going to
Greenwich fair the next day, and on arriving at home, was taken ill with
influenza, so suddenly that he was obliged to despatch a note to that
effect to his employer, stating also his fear that he should be unable to
attend at his office on the morrow. Dr. Sexton said he was indebted for an
account of the progress of his disease to a young medical gentleman,
clinical clerk at a leading hospital, who lodged with the patient in
Bartholomew-close. The report had been drawn up for the _Lancet_, but Dr.
S. had procured it by great interest.
MAY 30, 1841, 11 P.M.--Present symptoms:--Complains of his
employer, and the bore of being obliged to be at the office next
morning. Has just eaten a piece of cold beef and pickles, with a
pint of stout. Pulse about 75, and considerable defluxion from the
nose, which he thinks produced by getting a piece of Cayenne pepper
in his eye. Swallowed a crumb, which brought on a violent fit of
coughing.
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