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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    The remedy which my ideas infinuated as moft adapted to the removal or definition of conta¬ gion like this, however, was merely theoretical; and as fuch, I could not think myfelf authorized to try experiments with it, while eftabliffied modes of practice were fuccefsful. But by the deaths of thefe two patients, and the decided in¬ efficacy in every other cafe of fevere affection, I was now perfectly convinced that thole ejlahlijked modes of treating the prefent diforder were neither fuccefsful, nor in the lead to be defended upon ; and therefore not only thought myfelf authorized to change, but alfo fortunate in having any pro¬ mising refource,in fo diitreffing a conjuncture, to fly to. In April x8oo, I had had feveral patients in a typhus fever, which bore fome flight refemblancc to this, and which evidently feemed to be com¬ municable. It was not, however, either pecu¬ liarly dangerous, much extended, or long before it difappeared. The ufual modes of treatment were, at that time, very unfatisfadlory ; and to¬ wards the decline of the fever, I determined to try the very remedy which I fince have had recourle