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

  • Buxton, Charles, 1768-1833.
Date:
1793
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the measles / [Charles Buxton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cafe, the appearances which compofe our diagnofis will be readily diftinguifhed, by aeeasine to the following circumftances :--- From the fcarlet fever, by its being free from cough or any catarrhal fymptom.* _ A forenefs of the throat in the fcarlatina, at an early period, and its eruptions are more dittufed, of a brighter colour, and not fo eminent as the meafles.t The eruptions appear generally more in patches, of a bright red, and fpread fo much as to unite, and render the fkin entirely covered. From miliary fever. The miliary fever moft frequently happens to lying-in women. The hot ftage is attended with great anxiety and fighing: the heat of the body being great, foon produces {weating, preceded by a fenfe of pricking in the fkin; the perfpirable matter poffeffing a particularly difagreeable odour.{ From catarrh it is known by the hoarfenefs.and dry cough conftantly attendant on morbilious fever, together with the affection of the eyes.and fneezing. An atten- tion to the prevailing epidemic will always afford confi- derable affiftance in forming a juft diftinGtion. The difeafe with which the incipient fymptoms of meafles might be blended, and difappoint our judgment, is that of the /mall-pox. But here alfo, the ftages are well marked by the flow of tears from the “eyes, occa- fioned by inflammation or debility ; frequent {neezing, as if the perfon had shes cold, with a hoarfe, dry cough ; * CuLLEeN, DCLVY. t The pimples in meafles have fomewhat the appearance of flea-bites. { Cutten’s Outlines, pccxy.