An account of the epidemical catarrhal fever, commonly called the influenza, as it appeared at Bath in the winter and spring of the year 1803 / [William Falconer].

  • William Falconer
Date:
1803
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Credit: An account of the epidemical catarrhal fever, commonly called the influenza, as it appeared at Bath in the winter and spring of the year 1803 / [William Falconer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which mark the approach of the usual catarrhal com¬ plaints of the season. . : -4 s The above symptoms were soon followed by feverish heat, head-ach, cough, and difficulty of re¬ spiration ; together with an acrid distillation from the nose, great pain and throbbing of the temples, and great desire to spit, or throw off, by efforts of that kind, the mucus which colle&ed in an inordinate quantity on the bronchial glands, and those of the fauces. The cough was in some subjects slight and inconsiderable, in others loud and oppressive; and nevertheless ofteu ineffectual to produce relief by the expectoration of mucus. The skin was at this period, in general, hot and dry; though in some persons, sweats came on early in the complaint. In some bad cases, the peripneumonic symptoms increased to a great degree, the pulse rose to 100, 120, and 150, and were scarcely to be kept under by the most powerful remedies. Such cases, however, though not of extraordinary occurrence, were not, I believe, very frequent: Out of more than 100 patients at the Bath Hospital, who were seized with the Influ¬ enza, only six were attended with peripneumonic symptoms to any considerable degree. I must how¬ ever own, that, in my private practice, the propor¬ tion of severe peripneumonic cases exceeded con¬ siderably what appeared in the Bath Hospital; pro-