The Charleston medical register for the year M.DCCCII / by David Ramsay, M.D.

  • Ramsay, David, 1749-1815.
Date:
1803
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Credit: The Charleston medical register for the year M.DCCCII / by David Ramsay, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    if. difcharged the offices neceffary for their fupport. In one cafe, an unfortunate negro (who caught the difeafe, remote from help, and unknown to hi* owner) was fo far bereft of all power to help hi«ifeif, that rats devoured a large portion of hi* Achillis, fome days before he died. The recoveries from the fmall-pox were much more numerous than the deaths. Though in many cafes, the fubjedis of the former fuffered compara- tively little, there were others who efcaped with difficulty, and after a painful and diltreffing confinement. A confiderable number, (fuppofed to be not lefs than twenty) took the fmall-pox in the natural way, after having been inoculated for it, and after medical practitioners declared that they had had the difeaie. One of thefe unhappy patients died, and others fufreied more from it, in confequence of no pains having been taken to obviate a mala- dy, from the attacks of which they fuppofed them- felves to be free, till its advanced ftages evinced t'i miftake. The mealies began early in the year, and in the courfe of four or five months, gradually fpread over the city. A few cafes alfo occurred in No- vember and December. They were generally mild, excepting where they attacked perfons labouring under complaints of the breaft. There were very few inftances of immediate death from this difeafe; but it proved fatal in its consequences to ieveral who where of a consumptive habit. In perlonaof this defcription, and others who were not coi.fined to a low diet, nor guarded againit night air, and damp cold weather, the original malady was fol- lowed