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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    este LI SS 6 Of ihe Regular Small-Pox. cate to me, that the following Small-Pox' will be of the confluent kind, and not without danger. - But in the next place I muft acquaint you, that though in the Difimd Small-Pox, the fymptomsthat accompany the beginning of this Difeafe, ceafe (as I faid before) immediately after the eruption, yet tis quite different in the Flux; for the Feaver, and o- ther fymptoms, moleft the fick many days after the coming out of the pujtules. “This fort comes forth fometimes like an Evyfipelas, fometimes like the Meafles and as to the outward appearance, they can't be diftinguifht by any but thofe that are very converfant in this Diftemper: Yet he that fhall di- ligently confider the great difference, as to the time of eruption, inthefe Difeafes, and othercircumftan- ces, which he may gather from the Hiftory of each of them , will eafily be able to diftinguilh them ; ‘asthe Difexte increafes thefe don’t rife fo high as the diffintt, efpecially thofe in the face, but being mutually intangled one with another, firft they re- prefent a red Kladder that covers the whole face, which they fooner tumifie than the diftiné® kind are wonttodo; and afterwards they are like a whité skin, glew’d as it were to the face, which does not sie much higher than the’common fuperficies of theskin, After the eivhrh day, the white skin by degrees grows daily rougher , and begins to be chang’d into a duskifh colour, not a yellow, asin che other fort. The roughnefg and colour of the skin increafés daily, till at lengch ic falls off in large feales; but if the Difeafe has been very fevere, it dos ‘not [cale in fome places of the face , till after the one and twentieth day’; and the feverer the Small- Pox are, fomuch the more do the pujtules, as they sb ia abe RIG a ripen,