Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type, and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat, as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne in the year 1778 : together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna / by John Clark, M.D. one of the physicians to the Newcastle Dispensary.

  • Clark, John, 1744-1805.
Date:
1780
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Credit: Observations on fevers, especially those of the continued type, and on the scarlet fever attended with ulcerated sore-throat, as it appeared at Newcastle upon Tyne in the year 1778 : together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna / by John Clark, M.D. one of the physicians to the Newcastle Dispensary. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    either as out or in-patients, and therefore are not received at the Difpenfary, when the fituation of the patients will allow them to make application to the Infirmary. The Small-pox too, though it conftantly rages with fatality in the town, bears a fmall proportion, becaufe the lower clafs of people never apply for afliftance in this difeafe, unlefs their children are apparently in the utmoft danger. Many of the ge- nera of nervous difeafes, cachexies^ and local difeafes, are particularly the proper objects of the Infirmary practice; and therefore the diftempers belonging to thefe claffes, which are admitted to the Difpen- fary, bear a much fmaller proportion to Fevers, than would otherwife be the cafe. 4. The patients, admitted to the benefits of the Difpenfary, are vifited at their own houfes, and, in order to prevent any interfe- rence with the Infirmary, none are received who are able to attend as out-patients. This will account for the mode of the difcharge of the patients being more accurately afcer- tained, efpecially with refpedl to deaths, than in any other chanty, which has an eftablifhment for out as well as in-patients. TABLE