Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Willan, Robert, 1757-1812.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    producing blindness in thousands of indivi¬ duals. 4. Patients were not a second time attacked by the contagion. 5. It is by an¬ other author represented as an ulceration at¬ tracting or draining out humours, and attended with an offensive smell, (pp. 5, 6, 7*) Now it is very doubtful whether any of the several characteristics above specified will apply to the pestilential Bubo; certain that most of them will not; and equally certain that the aggregate will not correspond to the descrip¬ tion of any other complaint except the Small¬ pox : but that it will, with great fidelity, coincide with the most accurate accounts of the Small-pox in its confluent form. Dr® Willan therefore concludes, and the conclu¬ sion seems to be irresistible, that the disease distinguished so frequently under the name of the spreading or herpetic Anthrax from the common Loimos, was the confluent Small¬ pox. The destructive Loimos which began in the fifteenth year of the reign of Justinian (A.D. 540), and ravaged the greater part of Europe and Asia for more than half a century is next noticed. It was only observed at first as the Pestilence under its usual form, attended with tumors in the groin, or in the axillae, or