A treatise on the scarlatina anginosa, or what is vulgarly called the scarlet fever, or canker-rash ; replete with every thing necessary to the pathology and practice, deduced from actual experience and observation / by Calvin Jones, practitioner of physic.

  • Jones, Calvin, 1775-1846.
Date:
MDCCXCIV [1794]
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Credit: A treatise on the scarlatina anginosa, or what is vulgarly called the scarlet fever, or canker-rash ; replete with every thing necessary to the pathology and practice, deduced from actual experience and observation / by Calvin Jones, practitioner of physic. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    If This affection in thofe part the vigour and in the decline of life has never occur- red to my obfervation. Of the Scarlatina Anginofa affecting pregnant women, I have feen but one in- itance : this was in an advanced (rate of it; the difeafe was flight, and the recovery good. When it terminates fatally, it is on the fifth, or between the fifth and ninth, very rarely afterwards, and neyer fponer* unlefs the cafe has been miimanaged, or not ma- naged at all: in the former, by the injudi- ciality of the practitioner, in adding excite- ment tq a ffhenic diathefis, already top much encreafed, or what is more com- monly the fault of practitioners in allows ing it to run into a ftate of direct debility, or increaling that difpofition, for fuch is its nature, as in the warm weather efpeci- .ally, to ufher in the fatal event by inducing a pijtrefcent {late of the fluids unlefs coun- teracted by a large ufe of all the ftimili. Why children are more fubject to this difeafe in warm and hot weather than a- dults, and in colder weather in a lefler pro- portion, may merit enquiry : I will hazarcj a few conjectures in the attempt. * Thefe remarks refer to my own obfervation: A lady from New-York informed me, that a child at or near Powlei If look died of this difeafe in a few hours after having left it$ play. Dr. Rufh has obferved, that in Philadelphia there were r. few inftances of adults who walked about, and eventranf- 1 bufinefs until a few houn before they died.