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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    ( samy) eruption appeared, which was evidently the meafles ; upon this the fores on the arm appeared to go back, be- coming lefs inflamed. On the twenty-third, he was very full of the meafles; the punctures on the arms being in the fame ftate as on the preceding day. On the twenty- fifth, the meafles began to difappear. On the twenty- fixth and twenty-feventh, the punctures began again to look a little red. On the twenty-ninth, the inflamma- tion increafed; and there was a little matter formed. On the thirtieth, he was feized with fever. The fmall- pox appeared at the regular time, went through its ufual courfe,- and terminated favourably.” Further, I think it very probable that the different pe- riods after inoculation, before the approach of the erup- tive fever, can with propriety be accounted for upon no other bafis, than that of fome antecedent affection and peculiarity of conftitution. There are many inftances on record, wherein the eruptive fever has not made its appearance for fourteen or even twenty days after the introduction of variolus ferment: this, then, can be ac- counted for on no other principle than the afore-men- tioned. Mr. Hunter afks it as a queftion, Does not the cure of fomé difeafes depend upon the fame prin- ciple? ‘The fufpenfion, or cure of a gonorrhza, by a fever, may be an inftance of this kind. As an addi- tional ftrength to what we have advanced, I confider the obfervations of the late learned Profeffor, Doctor ALEXANDER Monro, of Edinburgh, who relates fome inffances of meafles and fmall-pox being fucceeded by each