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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    many hofpitals, and in many circles of private practice of late; feeing it has been fo very much the fajhion to give the acids to an excefs not known in former times; but, though hundreds and thoufands of patients have been fur-oxy¬ genated to the higheft degree, yet, I never heard they were attacked with the fymptoms of fcarla- tina maligna in confequence. Neither does fur- oxygenation render a perfon more liable to the difeafe, as I have had more than one indubitable proof of, during the time of the ravages of the diforder now under conlideration. Nay, fo far from that, in three cafes particularly, where the patients, otherwife in perfect health, were taking acids liberally for a cutaneous diforder, they efcaped the contagion, though their companions, who accompanied each of them in an occafional attendance on the tick, were every one of them feized with the difeafe on the third or fourth day after. It is very evident then, that fuper-oxygenation neither conilitutes the diforder, nor predifpofes *he body to become fubjedf to its influence. How