A plain discourse, on the causes, symptoms, nature, and cure, of the prevailing epidemical disease, termed influenza. / By John Herdman.

  • John Herdman
Date:
1803
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Credit: A plain discourse, on the causes, symptoms, nature, and cure, of the prevailing epidemical disease, termed influenza. / By John Herdman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    frequency of pulfe ; a total lofs of appetite, with vomiting and codivenefs; third, fcarcity and thicknefs of urine ; running from the eyes and nofe, and fometimes bleeding from the nofe ; inflammation of the throat, cough, and pains in the bread, and fome difficulty in breathing ; a did charge of blood from the lungs, or the ex¬ pectoration tinged with blood, and a fort of miliary eruption on the fkin, Upon the whole, every function of his body is more or lefs impeded and impaired. The whole of thefe fymptoms, how¬ ever, do not take place in every cafe of Influenza. Delirium, for example, is not a condant fymptom: it takes place in one cafe, and not in another. Neither does the affedtion of the eyes, nor the running from the eyes and nofe, nor the bleeding from the nofe, nor the inflammation of the throat, nor the cough and pains in the bread, nor any fort of difcharge from the lungs, nor the vomiting, nor the eruption on the fkin, take place in every cafe. But all the other fymptoms, the general
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