Cases of patients admitted into the hospital at Bath, under the care of the late Dr. Oliver. : With some additional cases and notes, / by R. Charleton, M.D. physician to the General Hospital. To which are added, Observations on stomach complaints, and the jaundice.

  • Rice Charleton
Date:
M DCC LXXVI. [1776]
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Credit: Cases of patients admitted into the hospital at Bath, under the care of the late Dr. Oliver. : With some additional cases and notes, / by R. Charleton, M.D. physician to the General Hospital. To which are added, Observations on stomach complaints, and the jaundice. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ * ] down upon the ground, and drank freely of cold fmall beer and cyder. About an hour afterwards he grew lick and vomited ; had a conftant head-ach, and remained much out of order for a week; he then grew well enough * » to be able to work as ufual. About a month afterwards a fmall red fpot appeared juft below his right elbow; it fpread and itched violently; it grew moift, and the ichor which oozed from it, foon concreted into a branny fcurf, as white as fnow. Spots of the fame kind appeared foon afterwards, in great numbers, round the el¬ bows, knees, hands, fingers, feet, and toes, and a few in his face. His body remained quite clear from any eruption. He faid his mother was fubjedt to the fame difeafe on her fkin if die ever drank freely of cold liquors, when file was hot. His lips were often fwoln; and when he heat¬ ed himfelf by exercife, efpecially after walking and hanging down his arms, his hands would fwell, and the blotches would burft, chap, and bleed; but they were foon covered with the white cruft, after reft, and the dwellings decrcafed. This
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