An inaugural dissertation on the influenza / [Robert Johnston].

  • Johnston, Robert.
Date:
1793
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the influenza / [Robert Johnston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Cae influenza cannot be the fame with that defcribed by Syd- enham, as the influenza is manifeftly contagious, and the great Sydenham, a ftrict obferver of nature, makes no: mention of any fuch property belonging to that which he defcribes.. Hippocrates was certainly as attentive, and. as fagacious as Sydenham, yet he difcovered not (what blood; a circumftance at which. we juftly wonder,—that it poilibly could have-efcaped:the ebfervation of a perfon much lefs attentive, aud enlightened than he who is with propriety ftyled the’ Father of the heali: no art. The fame: nefs of the fymptoms, however, Hdtibieably proves the identity of the Tu/fis Epidemica and the modern influenza. Dr. Grant in a letter to Dodtor de la Cotr, fays that he has carefully attended to: the beginning, progrefs, and: termination of the influenza, arid finds upon comparifom that the fame has been difcufled hy the Englifh Hippo- does admit of.?? Hiftory of the Difeafe. As a defcription of this diftemper may be found in va-- rious publications, I fhall content myfelf with a fhort ac. count of it, as it appearedin the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1789- Oober, previous to which, and’for fome weeks after, the weather was dry, cool, and pleafant. It commonly fet in with univerfal laffitude, with chills, and fever ; an acute pain in the head, and: eye-balls; not unfre- quently a confiderable itching in the é¢ye-lids; and fome had a {welling and inflammation of the eyes. There were fome alfo who had-ab{cefles formed in the frontal finufes*