An inaugural dissertation on the influenza / By Peter Irving.

  • Peter Irving
Date:
1794
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the influenza / By Peter Irving. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (424) much, both in the manner and order in which they occurred, that an accurate enumeration of them is ex- tremely difficult. It ufually came on with cold fhiver- ing, alternating with fenfations of heat; pain or fore- nefs in all the limbs, with a difinclination to motion ; obtufe pain in the forehead, dizzinefs, and. vertigo; lofs of appetite, naufea, and frequently vomiting. To thefe fucceededa fenfe of heat, and fulnefs in the nofe, in moft cafes, and fometimes epiftaxis. The eyes be- came ftiff and fore, and a difcharge of a thin acrimoni- ous fluid foon took place from both nofe and eyes, fol- lowed by fneezing and cough. The cough was often one of the primary fymptoms: it was generally at firft dry; but as the difeafe advanced, was attended with a copious expectoration. It was accompanied with difficulty of breathing, unufual fenfation of heat jn the mouth and fauces, hoarfenefs, frequently an inflammation of the throat, and confequent difficult deglutition. ‘The fkin was dry and hot; tongue com- monly white and moift, without much thirft; fome- times'a diarrhosa-was prefent, at other times an in- clination to coftivenefs, but in general the excretions were natural. A great variety was obfervable in the pulfe. It was, however, commonly at the com- mencement of the difeafe full and foft; but often be- came in 2 fhort time fmall and weak. ‘There was fre- quently 2 confiderable degree of languor, laffitude, and depreffion of fpirits from the beginning. The
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