Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Willan, Robert, 1757-1812.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    with roughness and hoarseness of the voice.— 3. A distinction is carefully made between two species of the exanthema, which is precisely answerable to the long^recognized and uni¬ versally known difference between the erup¬ tions in Small-pox and Measles^ (pp. 38* 45, and notes to 46).—4. The sudden retroces¬ sion of pustules or tubercles efflorescing from within, rendered the case highly dangerous.—- 5. Almost all who perished, died of colliqua¬ tive diarrhoea.—6. So great was the defor¬ mity produced in the persons of the sufferers by the ravages of the epidemic Anthrakes in Asia, that they were compared by the specta¬ tors to apes, rather than men. Parallel pas¬ sages are concurrently cited from numerous writers of different periods, in which the seve¬ ral characters lastly enumerated, are applied, and sometimes in almost the same terms, to the Small-pox and Measles. To the evidence furnished by Galen's writings, is to be added, that he does not anywhere hint that the Loi- mos observed by him at Rome, was a new disease; but, on the contrary, speaks of for¬ mer visitations of it, and of the Anthrakes having been very destructive in the time of Asclepiades. The chapter concludes by quoting a pas-