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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    lity] matter ; and if either of them be abfent, or recede ~~ ss ig | before their duetime, the Parienr is prefently dying: ii iat) But it happens too too often in this hot Difeafe, i that the crafs of the Bloud being weaken’d and i broke by an over-hot Regimen, and: being {o highly i tie | ihflam’d, that ’tis no longer able leifurely to exter- el why) Minate the inflamatory Particles, (to fay nothing at | aif prefent of thofe mifchiefS that are occafion’d by son) eearsunfteafonably forced) fo that either the face or wait hands don’t fwellat all, or the tumour vanifhes with jh the falivation ; for though the fwelling of the face jt Ought to abate a little on this day, yet it should not | totally difappear till a day or two after, the tumour of 4) the. hands in the mean while increafing ; than ww which, as thereis no furer fign of recovery , fo the ‘| contrary certainly indicatesimminent danger. Bue however it be, the matter of the {alivation , which was crude and thin and eafily hauk’d up till this inl day, is now fo vifcid and tough, that the fck is in ‘i danger of being choak’d , and his drink is like to 8 ftrangle him, fo that ’tis forced back throngh his noftrils with a violent cough: he is hoarfe, and {eiz’d with a great dulnefs, being wholly opprefs’d by the violence of the Difeafe , and for the moft part diesin fuch an agony on the eleventh day, as I {aid before, | | There are yet other fymptoms that happen at any time of the Difeafe, and belong as well to the i. Ditind Small-Pox as the Flax. | ~ For inftanceya Phreniris {ometimes feizes the fick, by reafon of too great an ebullition of the Blond, and heis{o unableto bear,the heat, that he endeaé ‘) vours with all his might to free himfelf from thole i.) that confine him to his bed. And betes a a amg ee