Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 1).

  • Rush, Benjamin, 1746-1813.
Date:
1805
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    I saw two cases of eruption without a single symp- tom of sore throat. The face of one of those pa- tients was swelled, as in the erisypelas. In the other, a young girl of seven years old, there was only a slight redness on the skin. She was seized with a vomiting, and died delirious in fifty-four hours. Soon after her death, a livid colour appear- ed on the outside of her throat. The bowels, in this degree of the disease, were in general regular. I can recollect but few cases which were attended by a diarrhoea. The fever which accompanied the disease was generally the typhus mitior of Doctor Cullen. In a few cases it assumed symptoms of great malig- nity. The disease frequently went off with a swelling of the hands and feet. I saw one instance in a gentlewoman, in whom this swelling was absent, who complained of very acute pains in her limbs, resembling those of the rheumatism. In two cases which terminated fatally, there were large abscesses; the one on the outside, and the other on the inside of the throat. The first of these cases was accompanied by troublesome sores