Lectures on the More Important Eruptive Fevers, Hæmorrhages and Dropsies, and on Gout and Rheumatism
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Excerpt from Lectures on the More Important Eruptive Fevers, Hæmorrhages and Dropsies, and on Gout and Rheumatism: Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania My attention is now to be directed to a set of cutaneous affections, denominated exanthemata. This is a bad title, as some of them are attended by a pustular eruption, and not an efflorescence or rash, as the term imports. To many of the febrile diseases, an eruption is a constant incident. But such as I have at present in view, are strongly marked by several peculiarities. They originate in a specific contagion, - the consequent fever runs a definite course, productive of a similar virulent eruption, and destroys, with few exceptions, the susceptibility of the system to a repetition of attack. Variola, Or Small-Pox. This is a disease of modern times. No account of it is to be met with in the writings of Greece or Rome, which have descended to us. Endeavours have been made by Willan and others, to trace it to antiquity. But elaborate and recondite as were their researches, they have not produced any satisfactory evidence of its existence, and the fact, as stated, is now sufficiently conceded. Forcibly has it been urged by Sydenham, Mead and Friend, that, since Hippocrates, and, especially, Celsus and Galen, are silent in regard to it, the works of the two latter being a sort of digest of the knowledge of their predecessors, we are entitled to this conclusion, - and the more so, from the precision of their histories of diseases, - that no such had occurred, or with which they were acquainted. The earliest notice of it is by the Arabian writers. An old manuscript, in the library at Leyden, dated 572, declares that, "in this year, small-pox and measles made their appearance in Arabia." About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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