Case of a singular and alarming concurrence of scorbutic haemorrhagies, terminating favourably / by Thomas Fowler ; communicated in a letter to a friend.

  • Fowler, Thomas, 1736-1801.
Date:
1789
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Credit: Case of a singular and alarming concurrence of scorbutic haemorrhagies, terminating favourably / by Thomas Fowler ; communicated in a letter to a friend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    »7«9* -COMMENTARIES. 25.5 iVLay iitb. She mends apace. Stools and urine quite natural. Spots going off. Appe- tite improved. Ordered to take the deco&iou and elixir only three times a day. May i-jtb. She continues mending. Some fpots are quite gone off; and the reft are pale, and vanilhing. Appetite good. She gains ftrength, and walks out every day for the be- nefit of the air. Ordered to continue her me- dicines only twice a day. May 20th. She has no fymptoms of her complaint remaining; and is now as well as in her beft ftate of health, being never wholly free from her habitual dyfpncea. Observations. . a, . J . »’ K ' In this patient’s cafe, the following caufes feem to have concurred in producing the dif- eafe. Her fcorbutic melancholy habit of body, fedentary mode of life, afthmatic ftate of lungs, and, in particular, the previous flow fever, from which (he might be confidered only as a convalefcent.