Volume 1

An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa; particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778 / By William Withering.

  • William Withering
Date:
M.DCC.LXXIX [1779]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa; particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778 / By William Withering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ^5 contains the whole of his obfervations that approach the neared to our dif- eafe, I fhalT fubjoin it in his own words for the fatisfacdion of the read¬ er [a). But after all, he confiders the [a) Ante fexennium media xfiate fimul decumbebant in domo Domini Hook tres ejus fillaL, filiolus unicus, atque Domina Barnadifton ejus matcrtera, matrona annos feptuaginta plus minus nata. Omnes quail veneno deleter]0 perculfi febre, Synochus, unum tenorem fervante corripiebaniur, Tuffi Ferina, comate, deliriis, cet^rifque malignitatis fymptomatis baud obfcuris affli^li. Ideoque, nritura fyintomatum id exigente, Alexipharmaca mitiora cxliibenda, atque epifpaRica applicanda juOl. Die autem morbi quarto, quinto, yel fexto, finguli fcarlatinam efilorefcentiam per cuticulam ubique fpavfam perpetie- bantur, edmquc per feptem, odlo, vel decern dies pro- teni'am. Duse e iiliabus atque filiolus, quarto, vel quinto efflorefcentia? die parotidibus iafignibus affligebantur, unde deglutitio adeo praepediebatur ut iq praefens vitse lubfidium (inflamraatione urgente, ct fprti arterjarum vi- bratione adhortante) venam fecare et moderata manu fanguinem detrahcre coadlus eiTem. Alexipharmacorum autem et Vebcatoriorum ope continuata, glandule pa¬ rotides (utut venxfedione earura dolor ct ardor mitiga- rcntur) debito tempore exulcerabantur, atque apoilematis ruptis pus acre et corrofivum per nares, aures ct fauces copiose egerebatur, unde triginta dierum fpatio fenfim revalefcebant. Filia autem natu fecunda die tertio vel quarto elflorefceniiae immaniter vociferabatur prae dolore jngente axillam fmiilram occiipante. Ouo circa fangui- Scarlet