Medical tracts by the late John Wall of Worcester / collected and republished by Martin Wall.

  • Wall, John, 1708-1776.
Date:
1780
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Medical tracts by the late John Wall of Worcester / collected and republished by Martin Wall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    applied early in the Difeafe, was relieved confiderably by the Ufe of Antimonial Me- dicines joined with the faetid Gums. He is flill living ; and goes about with tolerable Eafe. Two were carried off by other Dif- orders, all the Reft died fuddenly. The Perfon, who is the Subject of this paper, was a {hort, but well-made man, inclined to be fat; a Circumftance which you have taken Notice of. He was 66 Years of Age, when he died, and had been afflided with thefe Complaints 6 or 7 Years. In the former Part of his Life, he had had feveral very fevere Attacks of the Rheu- matifm ; and therefore, the Pedoral Muf- cle appearing to be fo particularly affedled, this Difeafe at its firll: Seizure and for a confiderable Time afterwards pafTed by that Name and was not much atten- ded to. * At firft, for two or three years, * This Circumftance has ufually made both the Pa- tients themfelves, and thofe who attended them, ima- gine the Complaint to be merely mufcular, and accor- dingly it has been named, ^outy, rheumatic, or fcor- butic : but they could hardly have been fo deceived, had they confidered, that in the prcfent Cafe, the Pain is very deep feated below the Sternum, J. W, he