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The diseases of children and their remedies / by the late Nicholas Rosen von Rosenstein ... ; Tanslated [sic] into English by Andrew Sparrman, M. D.

  • Nils Rosén von Rosenstein
Date:
1776
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Credit: The diseases of children and their remedies / by the late Nicholas Rosen von Rosenstein ... ; Tanslated [sic] into English by Andrew Sparrman, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I have myfelf obferved fat children to be as often favoured with a mild kind as lean ones. | If the puftules being licked, have a falt tafte, the child that has them, is commonly expected to dic, but not elfe. It is likewife faid, that the difeafe will be fevere, if the hands and feet fhiver in the firft /fa- dium, or period, on their being touched : if thofe who have fed well, lofe much blood juft before their fal- ling in, either by wounds or otherwife, they will commonly have a favourable fmall-pox *. : It is no good fign if a loofenefs comes on, juft at the time of eruption, and continues ftill fome days during the breaking out of the poftules. If the pocks itch immediately after their coming out, they will not be. mild. When the pain in the loins, and the vomiting is gentle, no very offenfive {mel] comes from the mouth, the nofe not obftrudted, and the throat clean, the fmall-pox will then be benign, et ¢ contra. : Hemorrhages of the lungs, and of the anus, are threatening figns; but the blood being voided along with therurine, not one patient among a thoufand will recover. In the fimall-pox, attended with petechial {pots, three fick are fometimes carried off out of four, - A confluent fmall-pox kills fometimes every fourth or fifth of thefe thus affecied. ; We fear a bad event if the puftules in the face are flat, and have a depreffion in the middle, together with a black-fpot, and if their bafis either be dark red or pale, and indolent in the third period; not round and hard to the touch, but foft,.as allo te the appearance, as if they were wrinkled or empty. Neither can we hope for any good fuccefs, if the * Dr. Fuller relates, that a ftudent at Oxford got the {mall-pox, attended with an hideous pain in the head and loins, as alfo a delirium ; but was relieved from all thefe by aviolent hemorrhage. A child feven years old, loft a great deal of blood by -its ftools, a little before the eruption of the puftules, which turned out a very mild fort, though the contagion was at that time fevere. This Mr. 7’, Haller tells in Ope/c, prin, ili, p. 352. Karepatrich, €. be Pe Qe oss 3 3 bs } patiens
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