Collections of acute diseases ... I. Of the smallpox and measles. II. Of the plague and pestilential fevers. III. Of continued fevers. IV. Of agues, a pleurisy, peripneumonia, quinsey, and the cholera morbus. V. ... of the bloody-flux, miscarriage, of acute diseases of women with child, etc / [John Pechey].

John Pechey

Date:: 1691

Credit: Collections of acute diseases ... I. Of the smallpox and measles. II. Of the plague and pestilential fevers. III. Of continued fevers. IV. Of agues, a pleurisy, peripneumonia, quinsey, and the cholera morbus. V. ... of the bloody-flux, miscarriage, of acute diseases of women with child, etc / [John Pechey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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able to the erroneous opinion of his Nur/e. . But at length thofe Particles being eliminated by (ear, which fhould have férv’dto elevate the puftules, and ‘tofwell the face, on the eighth day.the face, which ought to have been {well’d and inflam’d between the puftules , on the contrary appears flacid and white, yet the puffules continue red and elevated, even when the Patient is dead ; and the fweat which flowd freely to this day, now ceafes of a fuddenof its own accord neither can it be rais’d again by the hotteft Cordials : the Patient is taken light-headed of a fud- den, with anxeity, violent ficknefs, and reftlefnefs ; he makes water often, but a little at atime, and in the {pace of a very few hours, takes leave of his friends, and repairsto his long home. But here we muft.take notice, that if the Small-Pox are few, if it be Winter, or if the Patient be aged, or if Phlebo- tomy has been ufed, then this hot method, of which we have now difcourfed, does not {o certainly hin- der the favelling of the face ; nejther is it fo deftru- tive, as when the Small-Pox‘eg thick, or when *tis Spring orsummer, or the Patient is in the flower of his Age, and has not been blouded. But in the Mux, the /ckis in greateft danger (and moft commonly dies) on the eleventh day; for the falivation which hitherto preferv’d the Patient, is wont to ceafe of its own accord at this time ;. there- fore, unlefs the /awelling of the face perfilt a little Jonger, and that of the hands now manifeftly be- ginning, {upplies its place, the /ick muft neceflarily perifh ; for ‘tis to be confider’d, thatin this fort the pufiules being fo very {mall, not onely (alivation, but the /sveling of the hands and face is likewife ab{o- lately requifite, for the difcharge of the morbifick matter ;

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