Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type, and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat, as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne in the year 1778 : together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna / by John Clark, M.D. one of the physicians to the Newcastle Dispensary.

  • Clark, John, 1744-1805.
Date:
1780
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Credit: Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type, and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat, as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne in the year 1778 : together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna / by John Clark, M.D. one of the physicians to the Newcastle Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    With a view of contributing my mite towards promoting lb defirable an end, I have fubmitted the following work to the candid confideration of the pub- lic. Its only merit confifts in being collected from actual obfervation on the fymptoms of difeafes,. the cafes of pa- tients kept from day to day, and the effects of the medicines which were prefcribed. The firft part of the work contains obfervations on primary fevers, efpeci- ally thofe of the continued type •,. and on a variety of fever, prevalent at Neivcaftk in 1777 and 1778, attended with cough, and miliary eruptions. Some of my readers, I am confident, will wonder that I Ihould adopt a limi- larity of treatment in difeafes, which have hitherto been efteemed to be of a nature fo extremely different. On this fubject, however, I muff beg leave to remark, that the opportunities which I have had of making obfervations, in b z diffe-