A general state of the Whitehaven Dispensary, : for the year 1787.

  • Whitehaven Dispensary (Whitehaven, England)
Date:
[1788]
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Credit: A general state of the Whitehaven Dispensary, : for the year 1787. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    unerring indications of a very propitious event. The duration of this difeafe feldom exceeded fix days, and its dangerous terminations, when further protracted, were the ufual confequences of general or partial debility ; dropfl- cal or fcrophulous tumours forming in different parts of the body. With regard to this, and every other fpecies of contagious diforder, we are happy in reftoring the pub- lic tranquillity by the certain affurance, that this town and neighbourhood have been many months perfectly free from their influence. The Rate of the Winter, more open and temperate than even that of the preceding year, induced few, and thofe neither powerful nor permanent, chronic affeCtions. Inflammatory and catarrhal complaints (fo efpecially relying upon a viciflitude of weather to which in this climate we are Angularly expofed) in confequence rarely and mildly prevailed. Several perfons, however, with whom an almoft habitual tendency to afthmatic and rheumatic diforders was connected with age and infirmity, fuffered at this feafon their accidental and violent recur- rence. To thefe, the proper medical cafes, may be added a numerous train of Surgical and Midwifes y patients; many of whom obtained every requiflte afliftance in cir- cumftances of diftrefsful folicitude and danger. Relative to the fubjeCt of Suspended Animation, which has, in the metropolis of this kingdom, defervedly engaged the attention, and acquired the fupport of the ingenious and the opulent, we are frequently receiving very inftruCtive information. To the fagaciousREGi ster of a Society, more immediately interefled in the difplay and arrangement of each fpecuiative doCtrine or practical application.