Volume 1

An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa; particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778 / By William Withering.

  • Withering, William, 1741-1799.
Date:
M.DCC.LXXIX [1779]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa; particularly as it appeared at Birmingham in the year 1778 / By William Withering. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    1 II2 OF THE SCAkLET FEVER Remarks. This was one of thofe / cafes in which the violence of the at¬ tack and the rapidity of the fymptoms threatened the greateft danger. The i alleviation of the diftrefs of the patient ; after every vomit, was a proof of the i propriety of that mode of treatment; but the quick recurrence of difagreeable t fymptoms argued the fatal tendency of the difeafe. The blifter was not appli¬ ed, and to the omiffion of that I attri¬ bute the fafety of the patient for where the violence of the inflammation can but barely be counterbalanced by the means we can command, the ad¬ ditional ftimulus of a blifter is fufficient i to deftroy the equilibrium. CASE III. A Boy fifteen years of age, at a board- ing-fchool about fix miles from, this place, was feized on Monday the i 26th