Collections of acute diseases ... I. Of the smallpox and measles. II. Of the plague and pestilential fevers. III. Of continued fevers. IV. Of agues, a pleurisy, peripneumonia, quinsey, and the cholera morbus. V. ... of the bloody-flux, miscarriage, of acute diseases of women with child, etc / [John Pechey].

  • John Pechey
Date:
1691
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Credit: Collections of acute diseases ... I. Of the smallpox and measles. II. Of the plague and pestilential fevers. III. Of continued fevers. IV. Of agues, a pleurisy, peripneumonia, quinsey, and the cholera morbus. V. ... of the bloody-flux, miscarriage, of acute diseases of women with child, etc / [John Pechey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    That fort of Small-Pox which we call the Flux, has’ the fame fymptoms with the Diftintt , onely they are more- violent : the,ficknels, the vomiting, dt} the Feaver, and the reftle{nefs rage more cruelly, b nit | Which figns they are known to an Acute Phyfictan before they come out; yet the fick is not fo apt to meat in this fort, as in the other above defcrib’d ; and where there is a great inclination to it, it moft commonly fignifies, that the Small-Pox which are coming out , will not fax: Moreover , a Joofne(s | fometimes precedes the eruption , and continues a i) day or two after it, which I never obferv'd in the ne 4 = -Daflind Small-Pox. This fort comes out generally on the third day, i fometimes before, {carce ever after it ; whereas the i Difind thow themf{élves the very fourth day inclu- | fively, from the firft being taken, or after, very fel- 3] dom before; and by how much fooner they come »@ Qut before the fourth day, fomuch more will they . iy | flux: And though to {peak in general, the Hyx- sf Pox fcarce ever tarry till the fourth day, yet it may fo happen, though very rarely, that the eruptionmay be deferr’d to the fourth or ffth, by reafon of {ome grievous fymptom which affli@s the Patient beforé 1 the eruption, as a moft violent pain ,fometimes inthe 1 egion of the Loins like a fit of the Stone, fome- A times in the Side like a Plemife » fometimes in the Limbs like a Rbumatifm ; laltly , in the Stomach with violent ficknefs and vomiting. In thefe cales, | I have obferv’d the small-Pox to come out later j than ordinary , becaufe they were reftrain'd and J W hinder’d by the extream violence of the {aid {fym- | ptoms ; which fymptoms being more vehement _ 4 than is ufual, when they lead the Van, plainly indi. | 3 cate gi yV ri } v jaw” 0 ()be ¥ all | | | |