Observations on the epidemic catarrhal fever or influenza, of 1803. To which are subjoined, historical abstracts concerning the catarrhal fevers of 1762, 1775, and 1782. And communications from various correspondents / [Richard Pearson].

  • Pearson, Richard, 1765-1836
Date:
1803
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Credit: Observations on the epidemic catarrhal fever or influenza, of 1803. To which are subjoined, historical abstracts concerning the catarrhal fevers of 1762, 1775, and 1782. And communications from various correspondents / [Richard Pearson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f - • ( 31 SECTION IV. Communications from Correspondents, Having circulated the following Queries rela¬ tive to the progress, nature, and treatment of the prevailing Epidemic, I have been favoured with answers from various parts of the country, which 1 here insert in the order in which they were received. ]. At what time did the Influenza first show itself in your town and neighbourhood ? 2. Whether it is generally accompanied with -symptoms which denote high inflammatory action ? 3. What proportion, in your practice, the pneumonic cases have borne to those in which there was no apparent inflammation in any part of the chest ? 4. Whether the pains of the limbs, of which almost all these patients complain, have not more affinity to those which are often observed in. typhus and other malignant fevers, than they have to the pains which accompany acute rheumatism } 5. Whether there be not generally more or less disturbed action of the stomach and bowels ?. And what appearances are most common in the 'feces ?