Practical information on the malignant scarlet fever and sore throat : in which a new mode of treatment is freely communicated / By E. Peart.

  • Peart, E. (Edward), 1756?-1824.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Practical information on the malignant scarlet fever and sore throat : in which a new mode of treatment is freely communicated / By E. Peart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( *9 ).’ been fo 'greatly afFedted, in defiance of all the pains I had taken to relieve him, died ! and a fecond, at the fame time, fhewed figns of reco¬ very. As the third had been attacked later than the other two, and as the modes of treatment in the two former were not exadlly the fame, I immediately put him under the fame courfe of medicine as had been adminiftered to the reco¬ vering patient; but, alas! with no good effedi, as he alfo fell a vidiim to the difeafe on the fecond day after! The others flowly and difficultly recovered ; but after a mofl impartial review of every cir- cumffance, and a fair comparifon of thefe cafes with the general progrefs of the difeafe when left to nature, or under different modes of treat¬ ment, I was under the necefiity of drawing this mortifying conclufion, that all my attention, and all the medicines, however various, or in what¬ ever manner combined, which I had hitherto given, had not been productive of any good effeCi •whatever ! At