An epitome of infantile diseases, with their causes, symptoms, and method of cure ... / Translated ... by J. Smyth.

  • Heberden, William, 1767-1845
Date:
1805
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Credit: An epitome of infantile diseases, with their causes, symptoms, and method of cure ... / Translated ... by J. Smyth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    f>5 I V ramr?* '• - - * -4 vj • J Al v v • ’* ’ ’ ■' 1 - * ^ _■ 5 r. .' 7 \ \ CHAPTER LI. 0/ Fus tides. Children are liable to m^rv kinds of Pustules. Oftentimes red spots arise scat¬ tered up and down, which unequally occupy the face, or the breast, or the whole body. Sometimes they arise a little above the neigh¬ bouring skin, or are filled with a fluid. In another kind they are scaly, some being moist and some more dry. These chiefly arise on the forehead. Although they some¬ times continue long, yet there is seldom any danger to be apprehended, and no cicatrix is left behind. Sometimes red Pustules arise on the breast and face, or whole body, and remain three or four days, which resemble the Red Gum or the Measles. Yet since little or no fever attends this eruption, I think it ought not to be classed with either of the above diseases, which opinion l am the more confirmed in, because I have seen children attacked with these, which children 1 have before attended and cured of the Red Gum. K i