Volume 2

An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 ... / [Colin Chisholm].

  • Chisholm, Colin, 1755-1825
Date:
1795
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Credit: An essay on the malignant pestilential fever introduced into the West Indian Islands from Boullam, on the coast of Guinea, as it appeared in 1793 and 1794 ... / [Colin Chisholm]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pees | terminate favourably, the whole of the {ero- tum in a few days is covered with a coat. of hardened pus, which, in the convale{cent ftate, comes away very eafily by means of a warm bath. The thicknefs of this coat may be about a fourth of a line, and when feparated, refembles much moittened parch- ment, In fatal cafes, this afe@ion of the fcrotum always terminates in gangrene a few hours before death. The change of voice is very remarkable in this fever; for froma {trong tenor or manly found, it finks to a treble, ora found much fofter, lower, and thriller than the natural one: the fyllables are more diftinguifhed, and the words are ftrangely lengthened out ina draw- ling or whining manner. In the patients who have funk under this difeafe, the change of voice happens much earlier, and more re- markably than in others. It has therefore _ always afforded mea pretty certain prog- noftic of the event; for any alteration of the found towards the natural one, is an al- mott certain fign of a favourable change. A fuppreffion of urine is by no means an uncommon fymptom in the bilious remit- tents