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Paleopathology Case 95 This is a modern historical case, around 1900, from the Pathology Museum of our institution. His clinical history was that of a black, male child with nausea, vomiting, lassitude, fever, cough, and difficulty in breathing for one week before admission to the hospital. His respiration became more labored with intercostal retraction, pulse 125, respiration 36, temperature 100.4 with pallor. A tracheotomy was done with some improvement, but the tube became plugged on several occasions. After 4 days he developed convulsions, cyanosis and died. Submitted by: Dr. Marvin J. Allison, Medical College of Virginia Campus, Richmond, Virginia, USA. Diagnosis ? | Return to Table of Contents 
Updated March 20, 2006
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