Practical information on the malignant scarlet fever and sore throat : in which a new mode of treatment is freely communicated / By E. Peart.

  • Edward Peart
Date:
1802
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Credit: Practical information on the malignant scarlet fever and sore throat : in which a new mode of treatment is freely communicated / By E. Peart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    r ( ) At this very moment, when all my efforts w'ere baffled ! my confidence dedroyed ! and hope it- felt almod extinguidied by the didrefling load of anxiety which oppreffed my mind, the difor- der became flill more formidable, more frequent, and more commonly alarming ! Every day new names were added to the lift of fufferers ; and it was not without the mod mortifying and painful fenfations that I faw them fly with confidence to me for relief, at that very time when experience had juft taught me by the cleared evidence, that jhicih indeed was the ajjijlcince in my power to give them; unlefs by a hold deviation from the eda- b]idled modes of practice, an effectual remedy could be found. For fome time pad I have not only made fo free as to think for myfelf, but have alfo ven¬ tured to think very differently from others upon many fubjedls. dhe nature of contagious dif- eates was one of thofe fubje<ds ; and as my ideas of the caufe were widely different from the com¬ mon opinion, fo alfo is the practice which thofe novel ideas fuggeded. The i (