The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover.

  • Thomas Dover
Date:
1771
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Credit: The ancient physician's legacy to his country / By Thomas Dover. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [110 ] 7he Flux Small Pox, or ' 'Variola Confluentes. e ■ ' * i HIS Difeafe was, doubtlefs, long be- JL fore the Time of Hippocrates, or the Divine old Man, as we call him; and yet Tis very furpriiing he makes no mention of it; nor have we any Greek Word for it. There are three Species of this Difeafe, commonly known to Phyficians, the Con¬ fluent, Anomalous, and Diftindt. I shall venture to fet down a fourth Kind, which I have obferv’d, as different from the three former, as they are from each other; and which may be called the Spotted Kind. I shall begin with the mod fatal of the three firft Sorts, the Confluent Small Pox. This Diftemper fets out in the fame Man¬ ner as other Fevers do, from the Plague to an Ague, Intermiffions of Heat and Cold, Vomitings, great Third, violent Pains in the Head,/ Back, &c. But the Phyfician may be affured where thofe Lumbago's, or Pains in V
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