The new domestic medicine ... / abridged from Dr. Buchan; also ... the notes of J. Hunter, and other eminent physicians.
- William Buchan
- Date:
- [between 1790 and 1799?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The new domestic medicine ... / abridged from Dr. Buchan; also ... the notes of J. Hunter, and other eminent physicians. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ *2 ] ferved, that the meafles and fmall pox rage at the fame time, but for the moft part they be- come epidemical at different feafons. The fymptoms of this difeafe are very gradual, and generally begin with a dry cough without any other fenfible complaint, but much more com- monly by a heavinefs inclining to- fleep.. Some- times the child is feized with a pain in the throat, a fwelling in the eyelids, which makes the light difagreeable, and there is commonly a great number of drops fall from the nofe* As foon as the fever begins, it encreafes with, great rapidity, and the child is afHidted with continual vomiting, and the moft violent pains in the limbs. Sometimes a loofenefs happens, and the tongue appears white, and about the end of the third, fourth, or fifth day, a fudden eruption begins to appear, efpecially on the nofe, which is foon after covered with fpots re- fembling flea-bites, but all of them are raifed fomewhat above the fkin, as appears by the touch, but in other parts of the body their ri- ling is fcarce perceptible. The eruption is generally greateft on the breaft and the back, and from thence it extends itfelf to the legs and thighs. If it is not of a malignant nature, the fymptoms begin to dis- appear foon after the eruption ; but for all that the change that takes place either for better or WQrfe is not fo cafily diftinguifhed as in the fmall-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2875864x_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
