Observations on Fevers, Especially Those of the Continued Type (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1780 edition. Excerpt: ...Scarlet Fever only seizes patients once in their lives, whereas having the Angina Maligna 'once is no security against a second attack. This indeed seems to have much weight; but I very much doubt whether the Angina Maligna was ever attended with the scarlet efflorescence twice in the same patient; though it is probable, when the disease is epidemic, that the fame patient may have the affection of the throat repeatedly. But I am certain, without considering the subject in this extended view, the practice can never be properly guarded; and mistakes must constantly happen in treating diseases, in so many respects similar. I cannot I cannot conclude this section without cautioning the younger practitioner against the liberal use of the lancet in every species of Scarlet Fever, notwithstanding the injunctions of the German Authors to the contrary. It is well known they are very great friends to venesection in almost every acute distemper. Sydenham, in the mild Scarlet Fever he observed, refrained from bleeding, and Morton did not use it without the most urgent necessity, and even then very sparingly. Perhaps antimonials, properly employed, when there is inflammatory irritation in the beginning, will totally supercede the use of an evacuation, so debilitating to young subjects, who generally become the victims of this disease. SECT. III. The Cure Of The Scarlet Fever Attended With Ulcerated SoreThroat. ALTHOUGH the distemper was not entirely new to me, when it appeared at Newca/lle, yet from the combination of the in Morton de Feb. Scarlat. p. 85. inflammatory and putrid symptoms, I confess that in several instances I was at a loss how to proceed; particularly in the beginning ot the epidemic. The great resemblance of the disease to the angina...