Reports on the Diseases in London; Particularly During the Years 1796-1800

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1801 Excerpt: ...the disease was more extended, and more virulent, than at any p«riod within my recollection, since the years 1786, 1787. The Small-pox and Hooping-cough retained-the fame proportion to.Fevers as in the last report; but I have not observed any cases of Measles.since the middle of September. Rheumatic and other inflammatory complaints were much increased by the humid air, and variable temperature in October, and November. Disorders of the bowels were, perhaps for a similar reason, numerous and violent. It may be added, that die fame period proved, in a more than usual degree, fatal to persons afsected with Consumptions, and other pulmonic diseases of long standing. A case of sebrile Nettle-rash being put down in the foregoing list, I will take the opportunity of observing, that, when the Urticaria is an acute disease, the eruption, which appears on the third day, is preceded by pain and and sickness at the stomach, head-ache, a sensation os anxiety and oppression, with a quick, small pulse, a whiteness of the tongue, great languor, and faintness. These symptoms are partially relieved on the appearance of the eruption; hut the constitution remains disordered till the rash goes off with exfoliations of the cuticle, about the eighth day of the disease. The sebrile Urticaria is not contagious. It affects adults of a plethoric or sanguine habit, who indulge themselves with eating and drinking too freely. I have, however, often seen it in infants and children, to whom it occasions inexpressible torment. Sennertus and Junckerf have given a short account of this disease. Sydenham mentions it under the article Febris erysipelatosa.J The eruption is aptly described by Linnæus in the sollowing terms: " Sudami' na pruriginosa, inæqualia, ruberrima, di...