Observations on the prevention and treatment of epidemic fever, at present prevailing in this Metropolis and most parts of the United Kingdom. To which are added remarks on some of the opinions of Dr. Bateman. And others, on the same subject ... / [Henry Clutterbuck].

  • Clutterbuck, Henry, 1767-1856.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Observations on the prevention and treatment of epidemic fever, at present prevailing in this Metropolis and most parts of the United Kingdom. To which are added remarks on some of the opinions of Dr. Bateman. And others, on the same subject ... / [Henry Clutterbuck]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which could apparently be traced to con- tagion, from those which could not be so referred.” * If this be really the case, it ahs one to believe that the circumstance of con- tagion will have no material influence on the effects of remedies. It is reasonable to suppose, that a disease which exhibits none but ordinary symptoms, is subject to ordinary means of-cure. Similar symptoms can result only from a similar condition of body ; which of course will be influenced by similar means. How far this is con- firmed by actual experience, in the present case, will be shewn hereafter. The first symptom almost invariably complained of, is more or less of uneasiness in the head: sometimes trifling in degree, but often amounting to severe head-ach, the seat of which is generally the forehead; when a pain is often felt, at the same time, in the eye-balls, and which is aggravated when- ever the eyes are turned to one side or the * Transactions of the College of Physicians of Ireland, vol. i.