An account of the epidemic and sporadic disorders which prevail this year, 1818, at Rochester, and near it / by Walter Vaughan, M.D.

  • Vaughan, Walter.
Date:
1819
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Credit: An account of the epidemic and sporadic disorders which prevail this year, 1818, at Rochester, and near it / by Walter Vaughan, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    When the cholera, which I have described, continues some days, there is sometimes an itching of the skin, which I do not recollect that any author has noticed among its epiphe- nomena or epigenomena. Cleghorn says that, at Minorca, a rash or essere was once frequent and epidemical, about the time that the au- tumnal tertians and cholera morbus began *; but here there is nothing like it. Yet I have seen some patients, in whom after the cholera had continued several days, not a rash, but an eruption resembling what is called miliaria rubra appeared; and I am persuaded that this erup- tion was always occasioned by brandy, by port wine, by tent wine, or by opium, which is fre- quently administered by the ignorant, in order to prevent exhaustion, and is frequently taken secretly by the patients themselves. In the progress of the cholera, some patients complain of a pain in the side, which comes on without a cold stage, followed by a hot stage, but with a sweat; and the patients often feel cold, and shiver in this sweat. At this I was for some time alarmed; but I am now con- vinced that it means nothing more than an im- perfect crisis. There is nothing in the pulse, * Observations on the Epidemical Diseases of Minorca from the year 1^44 to 1?49, &c. Edition 4th, page 133.