Observations on the yellow fever : with an account of a new mode of treatment and cure for the same, as well as for putrid and malignant diseases in general, applicable also to cases of poisoning by mineral or vegetable substances : a parallel between the yellow fever and the plague, their causes, the rational treatment of the latter, with the means of retarding or preventing the return of both / by Anthony Plantou.

  • Plantou, Anthony.
Date:
1822
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Credit: Observations on the yellow fever : with an account of a new mode of treatment and cure for the same, as well as for putrid and malignant diseases in general, applicable also to cases of poisoning by mineral or vegetable substances : a parallel between the yellow fever and the plague, their causes, the rational treatment of the latter, with the means of retarding or preventing the return of both / by Anthony Plantou. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Jet, or black colour of the skin, in fine, marks of gan- grene on the stomach and intestines after death. The sole difference before the fatal event, is the determina- tion to, and inflammation of the inguinal or axillary glands, which I take to be a sign of greater malignan- cy, whence it follows that death sooner takes place.* When the degree of violence in the disease is such as to allow the buboes to suppurate, the patient fre- quently recovers, yet even though the disease is not at its highest degree of malignancy, the buboes generally do not proceed to suppuration ; they excite excru- ciating pain, suddenly change from a red colour to a liv- id, and finally, to a black hue, whence the denomination of carbuncle. In these cases the disease terminates in death in the space of one, two, or three days; but when this disease is in the highest degree of malignancy, it attacks the principle of life so suddenly and violently, that nature has not time to offer any opposition, and sinks under it before the infecting poison can be brought to the surface; there are no buboes; there is no series of symptoms; the victim dies as if struck by lightning. From the reasoning I have just made, and the par- allel drawn above, I infer that the mode of treatment which i have recommended for one disease, is equally applicable to theother.f * A collateral proof of the similitude of the two diseases, is to be found in the occurrence of carbuncles in certain severe cases of yellow lever. + It is in this case, that camphoretted oil frictions on the inguinal and