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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    I’’- ~ dom juft thirty years ago; to which difeafe the in- fluenza has been thought fomewhat allied, though diftantly : with others it has ended in that com- mon indefinite eruption, vulgarly called a rafli; or in fuch inflammatory, or even chronic difeafes, as the conllitution has been already predifpofed to. Pleurify and peripneumony have very com- monly arifen from it; and fometimes afthmatic attacks, which have proved fatal; thefe, perhaps, are the moft frequent inftances in which its fatality has been remarked. A furfuraceous fcurf,over the hands, face, and neck, as well as other parts of the body, was obfervable in many at the clofe of the complaint. Extreme weaknefs of the joints firft pained, and of the knees more particularly, has always at- tended the termination of this difeafe: many young perfons have complained of fuch want of energy in the knees after it, as almoft to fancy that a premature old-age had fuddenly come upon them.