Collections of acute diseases ... I. Of the smallpox and measles. II. Of the plague and pestilential fevers. III. Of continued fevers. IV. Of agues, a pleurisy, peripneumonia, quinsey, and the cholera morbus. V. ... of the bloody-flux, miscarriage, of acute diseases of women with child, etc / [John Pechey].

  • Pechey, John, 1655-1716
Date:
1691
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Credit: Collections of acute diseases ... I. Of the smallpox and measles. II. Of the plague and pestilential fevers. III. Of continued fevers. IV. Of agues, a pleurisy, peripneumonia, quinsey, and the cholera morbus. V. ... of the bloody-flux, miscarriage, of acute diseases of women with child, etc / [John Pechey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the inflamation of the face and hands , when ‘ts at height, caules.a very florid colour in the {paces be- tween the Small-Pox, not unlike a Damask-Rofe ; and truly, the milder and more genuine the Small- Pox are, fo much the more does the pujfules and the skin between, reprefent to the life the colour before defcribed: And as the pu/Pules inthe face grow rough- er and yéllower as they ripen’d, fo on the contrary thofé on the hands, and other parts of the body, daily appear'd {moother and whiter. On the ‘eleventh day, the tumour and inflamation of the face, manifeftly diminifh, and the pujtules of the face and body, having arriv’d at their maturity and juft magnitude (which in thefe years equall'd a large Pea) dry away and fall off, and in this fort of Small-Pox, totally vanith on the fourteenth or fifteenth day ; but the puffules of the hands are many times more obftinate, for being frefh and white, they ftay a day or two behind the other ; and whereas thote of the face and body fcale off, thefe break and run away, Seurfie (cales {ucceed the pujfules of the face, and fometimes pock-holes follow them; for when the pujfules firft fall off, there is no inequality to be perceiv’d inthe skin ; but after the fcales, the pits ap- pear, and are to be {een a long time after the Pati- ents well; yet the difimét Small-Pox feldom leave © any marks behind, and they almoft were all that. pitted, which invaded the laft fix Months of the year ; for thofe that preceded them, made no im- preffion on the skin, unlefs they fvo’d, which we {hall Treat of hereafter. ‘Through the whole courfe of this Difeafé, the Patzent was either bound altoge- cher, or went to ftool very {eldom. And fo much for the difting? Small-Pox, == That