Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Robert Willan
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1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    irritation of pack-saddles* He says they became scaly or shelly, and prove danger¬ ous. Thus every febrile pustular eruption is compared by authors to the dreadful, but un¬ defined Ignis sacer. A poet and philosopher,—the intrepid Seneca,—is the first I can find who has stated the actual symptoms of the disease, so deno¬ minated. While enlarging on Sophocles's account of the Loimos at Thebes (page 57), he uses the following strong expressions ; “ O new and direful face of death! Worse than death! —An irresistible languor chains the sluggish limbs; a flamy vapour burns the body's ci¬ tadel, and flushes the cheeks with blood : then small spots besprinkle the head; the eyes are stiffened, and the sacred fire preys on the limbs; the ears tingle; and the dark blood, bursting the veins, distils from the contracted nostrils, while sighs and a heaving breath shake the vitals flA * Donatus only says, in iEneid. [lib. viii. 345.]-- sacri nemus Argileti.—Sacer, i. e. crudelis et pessimus ; unde et Ignis sacer dicitur morbus, qui hominem, perniciose se- quitur. f O dira novi facies leti! Gravior leto !—Piger ignavos Alligat G