Some observations on the present epidemic catarrhal fever, or influenza: chiefly in relation to its mode of treatment. To which are subjoined historical abstracts concerning the catarrhal fevers of 1762, 1775, and 1782 / By Richard Pearson.

  • Pearson, Richard, 1765-1836.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Some observations on the present epidemic catarrhal fever, or influenza: chiefly in relation to its mode of treatment. To which are subjoined historical abstracts concerning the catarrhal fevers of 1762, 1775, and 1782 / By Richard Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( ) As many practitioners, into whose hands this pamphlet may circulate, may not have in their possession the works referred to in the first page, containing the histories of similar preceding epidemics; we here subjoin, for the use of such readers, an abstract therefrom. Symptoms which characterized the epidemic. ca-^ tarrhal fever of 176^^ cis it appeared in London in the beginning of April, See Baker de Catarrho Epidemic 0, Alternate chills and heat; a continual harassing cough, with or without expectoration ; lassitude ; headach ; eyes inflamed, watery, not bearing the light; swellings of the eye-lids; frequent sneezing ; hoarseness; a sense of heat and rawness along the whole course of the trachea, extending to the cartilago ensiformis. In others, a similar sensation extending from the fauces to the stomach; in¬ flammatory angina; a sense of weight in the middle part of the chest; and, during the violence of the cough, lacerating pains between the shoulders; also, flying pains in the limbs. In 1