A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen / by Alexander Gordon.

  • Gordon, Alexander, 1752-1799.
Date:
1795
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Credit: A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever of Aberdeen / by Alexander Gordon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    The tongue in mofl: cafes was white, but foft and moift; in thofe, however, which were long protrafted, it became dry and rough, having the fame appearance as in ty-. phus. The urine was fometimes high coloured, but more frequently turbid, and was oftea pafTed with pain and difficulty. * ' The blood taken away in this difeafe had always a very thick inflammatory cruft, and was exaftly fimilar to that of patients in pleu- rlfy and rheumatifm. The fkin was generally hot and dry, but fometimes it was moift; and an univerfal fweat was dilFufed over the whole of the body, pretty early in the difeafe, even in fome cafes which terminated fatally. Partial fweats, however, were very common, and when cold and faint, and confined, to the face and breaft, announced the approach of death. A circumfcrlbed crimfon colour in the cheeks