SERIOUS ILLNESS OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 259, 10 April 1875, Page 3

SERIOUS ILLNESS OF PRINCE LEOPOLD.

The Lancet says “ According to the latest information, the condition of his Royal Highness Prince Leopold is precarious. Although he slept for several hours last night, the degree of debility was this morning intensified. Attacks* of sickness have supervened, while the haemorrhagic discharges give unerring indications of abdominal mischief. We have the consolation of feeling assured that everything that human skill and solicitude can suggest is being done for the Prince,” The British Medical Journal says “We would say nothing to add to the general anxiety which the condition of Prince Leopold must necessarily create. Haemorrhage after typhoid fever is always one of the most serious complications. In this case the attack of fever was slight; but the peculiar liability of the prince to severe haemorrhage, from which he has always been a sufferer, give a special aspect of gravity to his condition. It is essentially a case for vigilant medical attendance and most careful nursing; and as these have before now saved Prince Leopold from urgent conditions of peril, so we may now hope that they will triumph over the present difficulties. He is in the hands of those who have watched him from the cradle, and who are armed by the special experience of his constitution, as well as the most ample command of professional resources.”