A description of the influenza : with its distinction and method of cure / by R. Hamilton, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Medicinal Society of Edingburgh.

  • Hamilton, Robert, 1749-1830.
Date:
1782
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Credit: A description of the influenza : with its distinction and method of cure / by R. Hamilton, M.D. and Fellow of the Royal Medicinal Society of Edingburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In many I could diftinguifh very little fever, by what remarks I was able to make on the pulfe : in others, neverthelefs, it was fufficiently evidentj and many were weak and faint. There is always fome thirfti In my own cafe, and in all thofe I vifited, the pain on attempting to cough was felt about the head of the fternum, reaching as far down as its middle, but not fpreading far on either fide. I found very few who pointed at the feat of the pain as placed near the cartilago enfiformis. From this it appears to be en- tirely confined to the trachea, and its fi.rO. ramifications j neither the pleura covering the lungs, nor their proper coat having any part in the affection. In fome who were valetudinarians, whofe lungs were previoufly in an unfound ftate; or where there was a hereditary taint, laying an eafy foundation for an affection, the cafe was ctherwife. Thefe were feized in a more C violent