Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons].
- Samuel Foart Simmons
- Date:
- 1780
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the treatment of consumptions ... / [Samuel Foart Simmons]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 25 ] ' , l ! of the face is pale, and appears as if it were not clean wafhed. The col- tivenels that commonly accompanies the beginning of the difeafe, is ufually fucceeded by a diarrhoea ; the Ipit- ting leffens, and all the purulent mat¬ ter feems to be carried downwards. The wafting of the fat and the lofs A of nourifliment occafion the nails to curve inwards, the hair to fail oft, and the eyes to fink ill their lockets. In the mean time the legs commonly fwell, till at length death clofes a fcene which is melancholy to all but the pa¬ tient himfelf, who in general com tinues fenlible to the laft moment, and even then indulges a vain hope of pro¬ longing a miferable exiftence. Profef- for Whytt has endeavoured to explain the reafon of this cheerfulnefs and con¬ fidence in confumptive patients; but > there feems to be more of ingenuity D than](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b3038316x_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
