Volume 1

Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle].

  • Pringle, John, Sir, 1707-1782.
Date:
1750
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Credit: Observations on the nature and cure of hospital and jayl-fevers. In a letter to Doctor Mead / [Sir John Pringle]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *9 1 them till death. They rarely fleep, and at all times look like men penfive or in deep thought rather than a fever. The face is late in acquiring either a ghaftly or a very morbid look. The confufion of the head of¬ ten rifes to a delirium, efpecially at night, but rarely turns to rage, to thofe high flights of imagination frequent in other fevers. It is likewife more common to obferve a tremor than a fubfultm tendinum; or if that fymptom feizes them, it is in a lefs degree than in in¬ flammatory fevers. All along as the pulfe links, the Jlupor or delirium, and tremor in- creafe; and in proportion to its riling the head and fpirits are relieved. Frequently from the firft beginning the patient is dull of hearing, and at laft grows almoft deaf. There is always a great deje&ion of mind, and failure of ftrength. When the delirium is at its height, the face is commonly flufhed, with the eyes red, unlefs after large evacua¬ tions, when it appears meagre, the eye-lids in {lumbers only half (hut, and the voice, which is conftantly flow and low, links to a degree fcaxce to be heard. D 2 When