Volume 1

Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle].

  • John Pringle
Date:
1750
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [22] • *• • /■ **■ * » ^ ’ The duration is uncertain, the time de¬ pending upon the malignity ; for in pro¬ portion to its virulence, the courfe is quicker. In the hofpitals we have had it generally running from fourteen to twenty days, fome have died or recovered after four Weeks'ill- nefs. When the courfe is long, it common¬ ly terminates in abfcefles of the parotids or axillary glands; fometimes in a hedtic; and' ■ • y *- • -» > r* •- , whenever the fever is of an extraordinary length, it is probable the latter part is kept lip by the formation of fome abfcefs. Others upon coming out of the fever, are feized with an irregular intermittent; many complain of a pain in their limbs and want of reft; and almoft all of great weaknefs, con- fufion in their head, and noife in their ears. When the air is at the higheft pitch of ma¬ lignity, the courfe of the diftemper comes to be very rapid, fo as to terminate in five or fix days, either in death or a critical fweat. Of all thefe fymptoms the moft peculiar to the diftemper are always a Angular attack upon the head, either in the form of a Jlupor or pain; and if the difeafe lingers, a flow and low voice, finking of the fpirits and pulfe without any large evacuation, pale ' urine, jH
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