Observations on the disease called the plague, the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. : With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases / by P. Assalini ; translated from the French by Adam Neale.

  • Assalini, Paolo.
Date:
1804
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Credit: Observations on the disease called the plague, the dysentery, the ophthalmy of Egypt, and on the means of prevention. : With some remarks on the yellow fever of Cadiz, and the description and plan of an hospital for the reception of patients affected with epidemic and contagious diseases / by P. Assalini ; translated from the French by Adam Neale. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    himself up to sleep. If in this state he be left without assistance, his pulse be- comes more quick and frequent, the heat of his skin more intense, and the univer- sal debihty greater. If interrogated, he stammers out a reply; his ideas become confused, and on the third or fifth day he dies deUrious. Amongst the symptoms which were observed to precede this dis- ease, there was a general affection of the nervous system, loss of appetite, slight inclinations to vomit; the tongue rarely showed any marks of derangement in the Stomach; the stools became altered and liquid ; the urine resembled distilled water ; the glands of the groins and arm- pits, rarely those of the neck, became painful and swelled, and gave rise to bu- boes. In general, the whole lymphatic system appeared affected. Often small black spots showed themselves on the skin, which became perfect gangrenes. The dead bodies did not in general pre- sent any external change worthy of re- mark J sometimes there were found ecchi- moses, or livid spots, on the parts of ge-