On scarlatina : in a letter addressed to his son, in which is contained cases of angina sine efflorescentia, scarlatina anginosa, benigna, maligna vel angina gangrenosa, and their sequelae : also, observations on various therapeutic agents that have been employed in the treatment of scarlatina / by William Ingalls.

  • William Ingalls
Date:
1837
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Credit: On scarlatina : in a letter addressed to his son, in which is contained cases of angina sine efflorescentia, scarlatina anginosa, benigna, maligna vel angina gangrenosa, and their sequelae : also, observations on various therapeutic agents that have been employed in the treatment of scarlatina / by William Ingalls. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the casual small pox by strangers or infectious clothing, a hos- pital was provided at a distance from the town, to which, at the public expense, persons attacked with this loathsome mal- ady might be removed, and where infectious articles might be cleansed ; as either circumstance might become the cause of the general prevalence of the disease. Any member of a family might, and often did avail himself of his constitutional right to remain in his own house. [The confidence that was reposed in the judgment and fidelity of the attending physician by the municipal authorities, and in return the deference paid to the authorities by the phy- sician, produced a mutual courtesy and good understanding which were not disturbed for many years. Formerly, nothing was more common, and nothing could be more proper, than that the attending physician should meet medical gentlemen in consultation, but then he met them on equal footing ; he was subjected to no dictation; nor was he put under the su- perintendence of a semi-decemviri. Times are changed : there is an act now in force which is unconstitutional, and which as is evident from its whole tenor, must have been engendered in the brain of a committee, at the full of the moon.] Restrictive measures were adopted, because, prior to vacci- nation, an alarm that the small pox is in Boston, deterred the people of the country from bringing in their produce, thus having the effect of raising the price of provisions and ren- dering them scarce; and likewise interrupting'' the trade be- tween town and country, and diverting it to some other market. When the state of the atmosphere was favorable to the propagation of the small pox, so many cases occurred as to cause a general alarm of the inhabitants, the majority of whom were not protected, the regulations were suspended, and per- mission given for a general inoculation. A late professor of Anatomy and Surgery said, notwithstanding all the means