Volume 2

Observations on the diseases in long voyages to hot countries, and particularly on those which prevail in the East Indies ... / [John Clark].

  • John Clark
Date:
1773
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Credit: Observations on the diseases in long voyages to hot countries, and particularly on those which prevail in the East Indies ... / [John Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    abundance of bile. The crifis of the fit ig generally by fweat, and the patient enjoys a fhort lucid interval, during which the ulfe feldom returns to its natural ftate, and almoft all complain of a bitter tafte in the mouth, giddinefs, head-ach, and proftration of ftreneth. In a few hours, the feverifh acceliion returns, which is only known by an aggravation of all the fymptoms, and is carried off by a {weat, as the former paroxyfm; or fometimes by an evacuation of bile. If the difeafe is neglected, the remif- fions grow more indiftinG, and, fooner or later, it acquires a continued form; accompanied with many of the following fymptoms: the tongue, which before was only white and furred, becomes dry and black ; the teeth and lips are covered’ with a tenacious flime, and fometimes apthe appear in the mouth and throat. The heat, head-ach, and inquietude are greater ; the eyes either become dull and heavy, or wild and ftaring, and the pa- tient falls into a coma, or dilirium, at~ tended with tremors and fubfultus tendi-, 7] num 5