A treatise on the small-pox and measles / by Abú Becr Mohammed ibn Zacaríyá ar-Rází (commonly called Rhazes). Translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill.
- Rāzī, Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakarīyā, 865?-925? Jadarī wa-al-ḥasbah. English
- Date:
- 1848
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the small-pox and measles / by Abú Becr Mohammed ibn Zacaríyá ar-Rází (commonly called Rhazes). Translated from the original Arabic by William Alexander Greenhill. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CHAPTER III. On the symptoms wliicti indicate the approaching eruption of the Smatl-Pox and Measles} The emption of the Small-Pox is preceded by a coiitiuiied fever^ pain in the bach, itching in the nose, and terrors in sleep. These are the more peculiar sym]3toms of its approach, especially a pain in the bach, with fever; then also a priching which the patient feels all over his body; a fullness of the face, which at times goes and comes; an inflamed colour, and vehement red¬ ness in both the cheehs ; a redness of both the eyes ; a heavi¬ ness of the whole body; great uneasiness, the symptoms of which are stretching and yawning j a pain in the throat ^ and chest, with a slight difficulty in breathing, and cough ; a dryness of the mouth, thick spittle, and hoarseness of the voice; pain and heaviness of the head ; inquietude, distress of mind, nausea, and anxiety; (with this difference, that the in¬ quietude, nausea, and anxiety are more frequent in the Measles than in the Small-Pox; while, on the other hand, the pain in the back is more peculiar to the Small-Pox than to the Measles ;) heat of the whole body, an inflamed colour, and shining redness, and especially an intense redness of the gums. (2.) When, therefore, you see these symptoms, or some of the worst of them, (such as the pain of the back, and the terrors in sleep, with the continued fever,) then you may be assured that the eruption of one or other of these diseases in the patient is nigh at hand; except that there is not in the Aleasles so much pain of the back as in the Small-Pox; nor in the Small- Pox so much anxiety and nausea as in the Measles, unless the ^ Here again the Greek Translator has rCov dvo sidi^v rrjg Aotjut/cijc. “ The symptoms preceding the eruption of the Small-Pox and Measles are men¬ tioned below, Almans. § 1.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b29341073_0046.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
