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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    incapacitate persons from continuing their ordinary occupations and pursuits, and scarcely to require the aid of medicine, while in others the attack has been of such a malignant nature, as to en¬ danger and even destroy life. o The following is its most frequent mode of attack. After some alternations of chilliness and heat, the patient is seized with a heaviness or pain of the head, with sneezing, wateriness of the eyes, hoarseness and cough. These symptoms come on in the order here stated. In the course of a few hours the headach increases, the skin becomes hot, with a pain in the back and limbs, or transitory stitches across the chest. The tongue is white; the pulse quick or frequent, and for the most part soft. ^ There is more or less of sickness at the stomach, and sometimes vomiting. The bowels are generally costive; and considerable uneasiness, often amounting to great pain, is felt in some part of the abdomen. By the 2d or 3d night, the cough and fever become greatly aggra¬ vated. The former, viz. the cough, is strong and incessant, sometimes dry, but generally accom¬ panied (even at its first coming on) with an ex-^ 1