Eruptive fevers

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Gould, 1877 - 219 Seiten
 

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Seite 119 - And yet it never was in my soul To play so ill a part : But evil is wrought by want of Thought, As well as want of Heart...
Seite 27 - ... of the new doctrines. This I myself learned — this I taught : how erroneously will appear from the sequel. It was argued, that had the cases which proved fatal in 1801-2 been treated by copious depletion in their very commencement, the fatal debility would never have set in, for we all regarded this debility as a mere consequence of previous excessive reaction. The experience derived from the present...
Seite 118 - Far better is it to let the patient bear with tbe stench, than to let him change his linen, and thus be the cause of his own death. Nevertheless, if a change be absolutely necessary, be sure that he puts on the foul linen that he put off before he fell sick, and, above all things, take care that this supply of semi-clean linen be well warmed. Sudorific expulsives are, in the meantime, to be given plentifully, such as treacle, pearls, and saffron.
Seite 136 - The skin is more or less marked by red petechiae, varying in size from a pin's head to a quarter of an inch in diameter.
Seite 13 - Many speak of cholera and diphtheria as comparatively modern. I believe this arises from the want of an historian in former days. The account of the cholera as given by Sydenham reads wonderfully like what we know as cholera at the present day. The addition or intensification of a few symptoms would make the cases similar to Asiatic cholera, so that it requires no great stretch of the imagination to believe that the severer form may not have been a stranger to this island till 1831. The aphthous...
Seite 177 - ... communicated the disease to dogs, apes, and swine. In 1807 Gassner imparted the small-pox to the cow by inoculation. In 1830 or 1831 Dr. Sonderland, of Bemen, communicated the disease to cows, by simply covering the animals with sheets and blankets on which persons suffering from small-pox had lain. In 1836 Dr. Basil Thiele, of Kasan, in South Russia, successfully inoculated some cows on the udder with the virus of human small-pox. Vesicles were produced bearing all the characters of the true...
Seite 114 - Violent itching, redness and erysipelatous swelling of the face, hands, and other parts of the body, followed by yellow vesication and desquamation of the cuticle. Painful burning on face and arms; face enormously swollen Rash resembling scarlet fever.
Seite 179 - The main points of the statement here given are taken from these sources. Very recently (1860) Martin inoculated some variolous matter, taken from a pock upon the body of a man who died of variola, into a cow's udder, and subsequently vaccinated about fifty persons with the matter derived from the cow. Most of those so inoculated were attacked with variola, and three died (Boston Med.

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