An inaugural dissertation on the scarlatina anginosa : as it prevailed in this city.

  • Taylor, Willett, -1811.
Date:
1793
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation on the scarlatina anginosa : as it prevailed in this city. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Although the Scarlatina frequently terminated favourably, yet it often proved fatal, particularly to children. I mall now proceed to defcribe it as it appeared in its moft dangerous form. The iicknefs, which was not very great in the Scarlatina Benigna, proved very diftreffing to the patient in the Scarlatina Maligna^ which was almoft always attended with fome degree of vomiting: the parotid and maxiliary glands were confiderably fwelled, and often threatened fuirocation: the coryza, which was fcarcely perceptible in the one, was very considerably increafed in the other: the nofe, eyes and fauces difcharged an acrid matter, which excoriated the noftrils and lips ♦, palling alfo from the fauces into the cefophagus, it fpread through the whole of the alimentary canal, ccca- iioning diarrhoea. The ulcers were very numerous, they put on a livid appearance, and the breath became very offen- five. The -efrlorefcence would fometimes entirely difappear, or turn to a dark or livid colour; the tongue was dry, and covered with a brownifh fcurfs