Copy 1, Volume 1

The works .... / [John Huxham].

  • John Huxham
Date:
1788
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The works .... / [John Huxham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Greatcft Height bf ^ 8, 29.9, W. i. 7 Mean Height Leaft 19, 29.2, S.W. 3x. J 29.5^. Coldeft Day 24, 38, W.bS.i. 7 u • v Warnieft 17, I3, S. i. ^ 3i l|. The Small-pox were now very epidemic, and alfo more fatal, as being frequently confluent, pitted, and black; often crude, watery, and run- ning abroad ; fometimes alfo they occafioned terrible Ulcers in the Fauces, and a prodigious Flux of acrid Spittle. — The Meafles (till pre- vailed. Several Perfons were tormented with Oph- thalmies, and very great and fharp Rheums in the Eyes, and alfo with the Tooth-ach : In each of thofe, frequent Cathartics were more fervice- able than Bleeding. — Numbers were afflidled with a violent Defluxion on the Lungs, which threw feveral Perfons into a Confumption.—■ Several Rheumatifms and Pleurifies in the Be- ginning of the Month, and alfo fometimes Pe- ripneumonies with Petechise. Not only the Small-pox, but almoft every other Diforder^ was now of a worfe Kind than during the Spring. — Might not this be owing to the cold and moifl: Weather’s fliutting up the Pores of the Skin, and by that Means checking the Perfpiration, from whence was occafloned a ferous Colluvies, and that perhaps the more acrid, as the immoderate Heat of the Sun, du- Dng May, had torrefied the Bile and the Blood; and