Huxhamii opera Latina & Anglica / Edidit J.C. Huxham, A.M.R.S.S.

  • Huxham, John, 1692-1768.
Date:
1778
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    the Small-Pox, fcarce Salivated at all. Then particularly, an * adult Perfon, who had the Confluent Pox very feverely, did not Spit the lead through the whole Courfe of the Difeafe : She was feized with a violent Pleurify the eighteenth Day, but was relieved by Bleeding. The Blood was the mod vifcid, that I ever faw. ’Tis remarked by Lancifi, that People expectorate very little in diforders of the Bread, when cold, dry eaderly Winds blow ; and tis what I have frequently obferved : And this may be one Reafon, why fome Adhmatics generally fuller a Paroxyfm at fuch Seafons* The fwelling of the Hands did not fo regularly fucceed the De- tumefcence of the Face during this Conditution, as I have obferved in other Epidemic Small-Pox. Some had very fmall, or rather no Tumors at all. ’Twas very rare the Legs and Feet fwelled ’till af¬ ter the Patients fat up, and then they had much pain in the Parts. I have often reflected upon it, whether the Succeffion of the ✓ Tumors of the Hands, to that of the Face, might not partly de¬ pend on the later Inflammation and Suppuration of the Pudules of thofe Parts : The Pain and Inflammation being a Stimulus determin¬ ing the Humors to the pained Part; and ’tis particularly to be ob¬ ferved, that the greated Pain of the Hands and Arms commonly happens at the Time when the Salivation begins to ceafe : So that the Tumor of the Hands may, in fome Mealure, prove a .Succe¬ daneum to the Spitting. It is the common Obfervation, that the Pudules of the Arms and Hands inflame and Maturate a Day or two later than thofe of the Face, and thofe of the Legs and Feet lated; which may alfo be a Reafon, that the Tumor of the Leg fucceeds that of the Hands. I have been the rather inclined to this Opinion; inafmuch as I have fome times obferved a confiderable fwelling of the Hands (the Pudules being very painful and in¬ flamed) and that too in the didindt Kind, when there hath been Jittle or none in the Face. Generally the more painful a Boil is, * Betty Body.