Observatio de morbo maculoso haemorrhagico, auctore Joanne Philippo Rogert, M.D. ... : vide Acta Regiae Societatis Medicae Hauniensis, vol. I, 8vo, Hauniae.

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1789
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Credit: Observatio de morbo maculoso haemorrhagico, auctore Joanne Philippo Rogert, M.D. ... : vide Acta Regiae Societatis Medicae Hauniensis, vol. I, 8vo, Hauniae. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    6a MEDICAL , Dec.IT, ' at the prcecordia as even threatened fainting. j The day following The was obliged to keep her bed, and was much alarmed by the appearance of a difcharge of blood, from the angles of the mouth, the lips, the tongue, and the gums, ei- ther happening fpontaneoufly, or from the flighted injury. Blood alfo was difcharged from the noftrils, and coagulated clots were evacuated by coughing, while the urine was of fuch a dark colour as to verge even to black- nefs. Red fpots, the largeft from five to fix lines in diameter, the fmalleft about the fize’ of flea-bites, appeared both on the face and trunk of the body, but (till more on the extremities. Thefe in a few days became of a black colour; and they were fo far extended, that even the tunica conjunctiva of the eye was not free from them. The blood difcharged was apparently found, much refembling that difcharged from cutting a vein ; but it fliowed no cruft upon its furface. With the view of combating thefe com- plaints, recourfe was had to nitre with oxymel, taken in barley-water ; and it was obferved, that, notwithftanding a confiderable lofs of blood, the ftrength of the patient was hardly in s
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