On scarlatina, in a letter addressed to his son : in which is contained cases of angina sine efflorescentia, scarlatina anginosa, benigna, maligan vel angina gangrenosa, and their sequelae : also, observations on various therapeutic agents that have been employed in the treatment of scarlatina / by William Ingalls.

  • Ingalls, William, 1769-1851.
Date:
1837
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Credit: On scarlatina, in a letter addressed to his son : in which is contained cases of angina sine efflorescentia, scarlatina anginosa, benigna, maligan vel angina gangrenosa, and their sequelae : also, observations on various therapeutic agents that have been employed in the treatment of scarlatina / by William Ingalls. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    for the purpose of giving a momentary relief to a most insatia- ble and urgent thirst, and the urine was voided in such im- mense quantities, as to require buckets to receive it, and con- vey it away ; beside, whenever the night cabinet was used, there was a copious discharge of fluid per anum. Provisions, also, were kept in readiness with the view of complying promptly with his frequent demand for food, to which he was urged by an unappeasable hunger. For some time previous to the attack, contrary to his natural disposition, he was peevish ; dogmatical; impatient of con- tradiction ; took an antipathy to individuals for whom before he entertained a great partiality ; would not listen to any argu- ment or reasoning, that contravened his own views of his case. There was also a turgescence of the whole surface, which appeared to be owing to the effusion of serosity in the areola of the cellular membrane. Cause. The cause was the too free use of the cold bath. There is in the system a faculty of generating heat which is dependent on the function of no particular organ, but resides in every particle of the living body, solid or fluid. That each particle has an independent existence and the power of gen- erating heat, not only receives confirmation from the circum- stance, when from any cause it be deprived of vitality, and, of course, its calorific energy, it becomes effete, and can no lon- ger maintain its relation with the rest of the system ; but also from many of the phenomena of inflammation and its termina- tions. Though each particle may possess this property inde- pendently, still all the particles of which the body is composed, by their joint operation or consent, or, in other words, acting in concert, are contributory to the production of animal heat and its preservation at the usual temperature. The heat would become excessive and destructive, were there not a counter- vailing provision, the cutaneous and pulmonary transpira-