On the influenza as it prevailed in Bristol and its vicinity during 1803 / by John Nott.

  • Nott, John, 1751-1825.
Date:
1803
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Credit: On the influenza as it prevailed in Bristol and its vicinity during 1803 / by John Nott. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    *3 to a moft violent degree, whom I have feen per- fedtly well in the morning of the fame day; fo that any antecedent fymptoms can hardly be diftin- guifhed from thofe which are immediate. Pains m the back and joints, fomething fimilar to rheumatic pains, may perhaps precede all others. The fymp- toms are; a flight fore throat, which I never found become much worfe ; a highly-increafed fecretion of the pituitary membrane ; and epiphora, fimilar to what attends the firft flage of the meafles; alfo fneezing ; great pain, and perhaps flight confufion of the head; extreme dejeftion, anxiety, and proftration of flrength ; frequent pulfe, but for the moft part fmall and foft; cough ; and nearly the whole train of febrile pneumonic fymptoms, which it were unneceflary here to relate. Pains at the ftomach, with ficknefs, have fometimes occurred ; and, in a few inftances, diarrhoea; though for the moft part conftipation attended. In