An account of the epidemical catarrhal fever, commonly called the influenza; : as it appeared in the city and environs of Durham, in the month of June, 1782. To which is prefixed, A discourse on the improvement of medical knowledge. / By P. Dugud Leslie, M.D. F.R.S. With a letter to the author, on the influenza; as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne. By John Clark, M.D.

  • Leslie, Patrick Dugud, 1751-1783.
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[1783]
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Credit: An account of the epidemical catarrhal fever, commonly called the influenza; : as it appeared in the city and environs of Durham, in the month of June, 1782. To which is prefixed, A discourse on the improvement of medical knowledge. / By P. Dugud Leslie, M.D. F.R.S. With a letter to the author, on the influenza; as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne. By John Clark, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * *■ -s. ./ Though it was extremely common for people, who had a I mo ft got the bet¬ ter of the influenza, to have either one or two relapfes, if they were not particu¬ larly careful to guard againft the even¬ ing damps ; yet I met with no inftance of a fecond attack of the difeafe, after a perfect recovery had taken place. But I had frequently occaflon to obferve that a relapfe was more fevere and of longer duration than the firft attack. No inftance fell under my obferva- tion in which the influenza laid the foundation of pulmonary confumpt:on3 unlefs where the lungs were already in a difeafed ftate^. In three cafes where I G 2 had # Three months ago, when this account of the Influ¬ enza was written, the author little apprehended that he himfelf was to prove an exception to the above obferva- tion. But his cafe is now too evident to be miftaken, he was feized with the Influenza foon after it appeared in Durham, but took nothing for it, till the febrile exacer¬ bations