Clinical essays.

  • Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896.
Date:
1862
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Credit: Clinical essays. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CLINICAL ESSAYS. one in which it had happened for the second time in the same person, has been transcribed by almost all writers, and has led many to entertain a belief that the disease could never occur twice in one individual. This belief, however, is quite erroneous. Rayer saw one well-marked instance of recurrence; Bateman and Withering saw several; Blackburne saw two such cases; and Dr. Tweedie observes—We certainly have met with several well-authenticated instances of a second attack of scarlatina in the same person. I have known second attacks of scarlet fever in the same person without any doubt. A little girl whom I attended in 1850, took scarlet fever. The disease was very decided in character, but passed over fa- vourably. A month afterwards, the little patient complained of feeling sick and cold, and I feared that the symptoms of dropsy were about to present them- selves. Instead of this, the skin a second time became universally red, and the throat sore; the patient passed again through a most marked attack of scarlet fever. I am able, too, to speak from experience in my own person on this subject, for I have suffered from the disease, not twice only, but thrice. When a child, I suffered severely from scarlet fever, during a time when it was occurring epidemically in my native village. The rash was universal, and intensely red; the throat sore; the recovery slow. In the spring of 1850, whilst attending cases of scarlet fever, I sickened, became ill, and passed through a very severe second attack of the disease. The skin was