Volume 2

Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries, : particularly on those in the East Indies ; and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain. / By John Clark, M.D.

  • Clark, John, 1744-1805.
Date:
M. DCC. XCII. [1792]
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Credit: Observations on the diseases which prevail in long voyages to hot countries, : particularly on those in the East Indies ; and on the same diseases as they appear in Great Britain. / By John Clark, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fometimes frocidentia ani. The frequency of the evacuations foon reduced, the pa tient. to the greateft. weaknefs; and his countenance became inexpreflibly ghaftly. . ' As-foon as mortification of the. bowels took. place, the, gripes, and . other. pain- ful fymptoms fuddenly vanifhed; but the naufea, hickup, and vomiting full. con- tinued. The pulfe became fmall, quick, and fluttering ; the ftools pailed off infen- fibly, and were intolerably offenfive... In all the patients, at this period, convulfive twitchings of the tendons, tremors, and delirium. were added. At this ftage, feveral vomited a aie | fluid, which tinged the linen, and bed-cloths black. Some had puftules on the legs, arms, -and. breaft, filled with ichorous matter, which degenerated into black putrid fores. | At laft the pulfe failed; the extremities became cold; and the patients, after hav- ing been for fome days almoft infenfible of their miferable fufferings, generally apie at ftool, exceedingly emaciated. sain ae the dyfenteric fever at Bengal, through the. whole courfe of the difeafe, had regular remiflions, In others, it was é Sey ac=