Practical information on St. Anthony's fire, or erysipelas : and on erythematous affections in general; as also on the measles; in which new modes of treatment are communicated / By E. Peart.

  • Peart, E. (Edward), 1756?-1824.
Date:
1802
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Credit: Practical information on St. Anthony's fire, or erysipelas : and on erythematous affections in general; as also on the measles; in which new modes of treatment are communicated / By E. Peart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    medicine in other cafes; not only as a cure but as a preventive; being determined, on the firft opportunity, to give the volatile alkali imme¬ diately on the commencement of the fever; and likewife to prefcribe fmall dofes to fome who were likely to take the infe&ion, as a prophylactic. Another cafe or two occurred, much the fame as that I have already defcribed. They were treated in the fame manner, with the fame fimple remedy, and with the fame rapid difappearance of the diforder: when, unfortunately for my ex¬ perience, the difeafe entirely difappeared. Another cafe, however, foon after was laid before me, refpeCiing a girl, about fix years of age, refiding feveral miles diflant from me, and whom I did not fee. She had had the meafles very feverely; the eruptions, at the time when I was confulted, were nearly gone, but the fever remained, with frequent delirium ; cough fe¬ verely troublefome; her eyes inflamed, and the parotids confiderably enlarged and painful, with fome difficulty in fwallowing; and her breath highly