Some observations on the present epidemic catarrhal fever, or influenza: chiefly in relation to its mode of treatment. To which are subjoined historical abstracts concerning the catarrhal fevers of 1762, 1775, and 1782 / By Richard Pearson.

  • Pearson, Richard, 1765-1836.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Some observations on the present epidemic catarrhal fever, or influenza: chiefly in relation to its mode of treatment. To which are subjoined historical abstracts concerning the catarrhal fevers of 1762, 1775, and 1782 / By Richard Pearson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Such is the most common form of this epi¬ demic. Its modifications^ however^ as we'have before observed^ are extremely numerous; so that in some there is a violent headachy with little catarrhal affection; in others a sore throat; in others a peripneumonic condition; and in others a disordered state of the stomach and bowels,* These, and other varieties, have been particularly noticed in the histories of former epidemic catar¬ rhal fevers, to which, (in order to avoid repetition) the reader is referred. From this sketch of the disorder, it is evident that this epidemic differs from a common catarrh, in the degree mid kind of fever with which it is accompanied; and that, as it is the fever which constitutes the essence of this disease, and not the catarrh, it should be denominated Eipidemic Catnr- rhal Fever, or Synochus Catarrhalis, and not simply Epidemic Catarrh.f Its infectious nature can scarcely be doubted; but how long its conta¬ gion is capable of being applied before it takes The stools are more or less bilious in all instances. In some they are of a very dark colour, and extremely offensive. + In certain situations, the fever degenerates into the typhus hind.