Medical inquiries and observations / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania.
- Benjamin Rush
- Date:
- MDCCLXXXIX [1789]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Medical inquiries and observations / by Benjamin Rush, M.D. professor of chemistry in the University of Pennsylvania. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![[ ioi ] A N ACCOUNT Scarlatina Anginofa, AS IT APPEARED IN PHILADELPHIA, IN THE YEARS 1783 and 1784. TH E beginning of the month of July was unufu- ally cool ; infomuch that the mercury in Fa- renheit's thermometer flood at 61 ° in the day time, and fires were very comfortable, efpecially in the even- ing. In the laft week but one, of this month, the weather fuddenly became fo warm, that the mercury rofe to 94y°, at which it remained for three days. As this heat was accompanied by no breeze from any quarter, the fenfe of it was extremely diftrefling to many people. Upwards of twenty perfons died in the courfe of thefe three days, from the excefs of the heat, and from drinking cold water. Three old people died fuddenly within this fpace of time. This extreme heat was fucceeded by cool weather, the mercury hav- ing fallen to 63 °, and the month clofed with produc- ing a few intermitting and remitting fevers, together with feveral cafes of inflammatory angina. The weather in the month of Augufl was extremely variable. The mercury, after Handing for feveral days at](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21151775_0105.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
