Lectures on the eruptive fevers : as now in the course of delivery at St. Thomas's hospital, in London / by George Gregory.
- George Gregory
- Date:
- 1851
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Credit: Lectures on the eruptive fevers : as now in the course of delivery at St. Thomas's hospital, in London / by George Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SYMMETRY OF EXANTHEMATA. IS who, in consecutive centuries, did so much to improve the practice in small pox. It shows you that the violence of initiatory fever must often be subdued by active purgatives, by leeches, or even by venesection, to give the disease any chance of running a safe course. As, then, there may be eruption without fever, the question may reasonably be asked—May there not be the specific fever of an exanthematous poison without eruption ? Has a man ever gone through small pox and measles without exhibiting eruption 1 In all ages this doctrine has obtained some supporters, Sydenham encouraged the notion that in epidemic years a variolous fever was to be met with which showed no eruption. Burserius, Vogel, De Haen, Frank, Hedland, and others, have, in later times, avowed their belief in this Irish mode of undergoing small pox. Some countenance is given to the doctrine by the phenomena of cynanche mahgna, but it is very questionable pathology, which I cannot undertake to advocate. [Dr. Watson agrees in opinion with our author on the subject of the ^^ variola sine variolis.^'' [Pract. Physic^ 3d edit. 147, p. 979.) But a recent epidemic of measles in Paris seems to have satisfied those who observed it as to the occurrence of the constitutional symptoms of the disease without the eruption.] 2. The second character of the exanthemata is derived from the presence of eruption. Here I must advert, for a few moments, to a doctrine recently brought forward under the title of the symmetry of diseased action; by which is understood the fact, that in disease both sides of the body are affected alike. This doctrine always reminds me of the lines on Dutch gardening,, where Gro-ve nods at grove, each alley has its brother, And half the garden just reflects the other.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21055257_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
