An inaugural dissertation on the measles / [Charles Buxton].

  • Charles Buxton
Date:
1793
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the measles / [Charles Buxton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The fymptoms continue to grow more violent till near the fourth day, fometimes a few hours longer, when the face looks fomewhat {welled and frefh-coloured - at the fame time 2 number of little {pots or fpecks become ther, producing a variety of confluent figures. The eruptions on the face being thus completed, the neck, arms and breaft, with the other parts of the body, become fucceffively attacked. I have feen one or two inftances where thefe eruptions have been: firft noticed on the breaft; but here I could not obferve the pimples to be fo confpicuous as they are commonly found to be on the face, prefenting merely a bright red colour.* ° A’s foon as the eruption is finifhed, we find ourfelves difap- pointed ; for though the fymptoms are not aggravated, nefs ‘at ftomach and vomiting : : yet the cough, fever and difficulty of breathing are not unfrequently exafpe- rated: when this happens, the drowfinefs, lofs of appe- tite, flow of tears to the eyes, all continue till about the fixth day, when the countenance changes its appearance by a roughnefs of the fkin ; this continuing two days, they difappear, and are foon followed by the eruptions ‘on the other parts of the body in fucceffion. About the ninth day the fkin fcales off, leaving the body as if dufted over with fome farinaceous powder, which is often followed by an itchy fenfation. B ‘The * Syp. de Morbiilis, anni 2670.
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