Case of Framboesia Guineaensis, or yaws of the African negroes; with some attempt to fix the exact character of that morbid poison / by Joseph Adams.

  • Adams, Joseph, 1756-1818.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Case of Framboesia Guineaensis, or yaws of the African negroes; with some attempt to fix the exact character of that morbid poison / by Joseph Adams. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The eruptions continued to increafe in number and fize to fuch a degree, that the forenefs, abftradted from the pain which was confined to thofe in the face, rendered life fcarcely tolerable. Before the end of the month, my patient counted, befide a num- ber of fmaller ones, 56 large fores, fome of which being of an oval form, were not lefs than from two to three inches in their largeft diameter. He was befide this reduced to a fkeleton j for though his appetite was through- out the whole better than could be expected, yet the Hate of his throat prevented his fwallowing even liquids without very great pain. From this time no new ones ap*- peared, and all of them began to fcab. If therefore the difeafe was* yaws, which I had long fufpected, the prefent feemed the time at, which, by the concurrence of mod authors, mercury may be exhibited to advantage. The corrofive fublimate, though given in very fmall dofes, was more than the ftomach would bear : it was therefore given up almofr. as foon as tried ; and, as moft of the fores mowed a difpofiticn to fcab, no other preparation of mercury was exhibited. The fever continued all this while with as much violence as be- fore,