A dissertation on the mixed fever, delivered June 30, 1789 : at a public examination for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, the medical professors, and the governors of the university at Cambridge in America / by William Pearson.

  • Pearson, William, 1768-1795.
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[1789]
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Credit: A dissertation on the mixed fever, delivered June 30, 1789 : at a public examination for the degree of Bachelor in Medicine, before the Rev. Joseph Willard, S.T.D. president, the medical professors, and the governors of the university at Cambridge in America / by William Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I 5> 1 great probation of ftrength, with ifterititm appearancee of the eyes and fkin ; and if no diarrhoea attended, the abdomen was tenfe, and to appearance more inflated than when otherwife and the patient nude bitter complaints whenever it was prefled upon. The tongue had now an aphthous covering, or was black and rough, as if fcorched, unlefs where hemorrhage attended. The difcharges at this period were frothy and mixed with blood, having the appearance of water in which raw flefh had been warned, and emitted a cadaverous fmell. In fome the putrid fymptoms ran to fuch a length as to produce a difeafe which for malignity was not far fliort of the plague. A. B. of Bedford, aged 30, of a ftrong athletic habit and fanguineous temperament, had never been fick until the fummer of 1788. He was mowing in a very hot day in July, and when in a profufe fweat was thorough- ly wet, by a copious mower of rain j having got to his houfe, he laid down and flept fome hours in his wet clothes, and when he awoke complained of ftiffnefs of the joints and great languor, which was pretty foon fol- lowed by rigor. The next day he complained of fevere headach and naufea, with univerfa! forenefs. In this ftate he took a cathartic and the following day was bled. On the 25th (the fourth from the fcizure) his pain and other