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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    10. Gentle perspirations after an emetic were useful. Profuse sweats kept up by heat were uni¬ versally injurious. 11. Copious evacuations by stools, and the repeated employment of calomel, uniformly did good. ] 2. Opium given at first, in large doses, or indeed at all, seems to have done great mischief, ivhich I have had opportunities of witnessing re¬ peatedly. At the decline of the disease in el¬ derly people, where the breathing has been quick, five drops of laudanum with aqua kali, repeated every four or six hours, have been of great service* In these cases the short breathing I have supposed to be owing to debility and deficient absorption in the lungs. In the concluding part of his letter, Mr. Du Gard mentions, that at the time when the In¬ fluenza was so prevalent among the human species, dogs and horses wrere observed to be violently disordered. Extract of a Letter from Mr. Carpenter of Lyme Regis, dated April 22d, 1803. With the exception of a few cases, the In¬ fluenza (which appeared here in the beginning of March) has not assumed a true peripneumonia tion being repeated when the oppression at the prtecordia was great.