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ACCOUNT. oF 
From ihe 20th 
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ACUTE, DISEASES. 
No. of Cafes. 
CATARRH = = 48 
Pleurify = = = 
Angina = - “ 
Acute Rheumatifm e = 
Smail Pox = = é 
Meafles : - = 
Scarlatina Anginola . - 
Eryfipelas = e 
Malignant fever . = 
Slow Fever - - = 
Puerperal fever s = - 
Acute Difeafes of Infants = - 
; CHRONIC DISEASES. 
Soaks and Dyfpneea - - 
Phthifis Pulmonalis ~  .- - 
Pieurodyne - - = Z 
Chronic Rheumatifm - i ri 
Lumbago os ah = 
Afthenia 2 = 3 10 
OD weer PRP KRM Hw bh 
Hypochondriafis - - 
Cephalza = - ° 
Hyfteria 5 =. i 
Epilepfy - di = 
Hydrocephalus - = 
Gaftrodynia - = I 
Dyfpepfia - = =i 
Enterodynia’ = + _ = 
Diairhea She - =) 
Conftipatio - 
Inteftinal Reeser = - 
Menorrhagia..- = - - 
Fluor Albus - = 
Chlorofis and Amenorrhzea - 
Scrophula <i - nhgice 
Tabes Mefenterica - - 
Worms - - - 
Schirrhous Liver > = 
Jaundice - - - 
Hernia - = & 
Prolapfus Uteri - - 
Tooth-ach _ - - 
Scaly Tettar - é 
Herpes Phiy€tenodes L- - 
Itch and Prurigo = = 
Lupus, - - - 
Nearly one half of the cafes in the 
above lift are difeafes of the lungs, oeca- 
fioned by the fharp and intenfely cold 
af winds, which have prevailed 
during the month. The fymptoms. of 
the: epidemic: catarrh were, headach, 
fometimes attended with vertigo; a thin, 
atrimonious difcharge’ from the noftrils ; 
‘flight inflammation of the throat; a fenfe 
of confri@tion in the cheft, with a fre- 
quent dry cough ; 
white tongue; a quick and {mall pulfe - 
( 230} | 
DISEASES m.LONDON, 
oe February to the 20th of March. 
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pains in the limbs; a. 
wih a fenfarion of languor, and wehtened 
debility. This'diforder continued about 
eight days; and then terminated with 
gentle per fpirations, or in fome inftances 
by a diarrhcea. 
practitioners, denominated an influenza ; 
but, I think, not with firiét propriety ; 
the complaint being merely epidemical 
from a particular fiate of the atmofphere, 
and not propagated by contagion. Coughs 
have been remarkably fevere and obfti- 
nate: they were frequently attended 
with painful ftitches, and {pitting of 
blood. Several perfons, not previoully 
much indifpofed, were feized on a fud- 
den with a violent cough, and great dif. 
ficulty of breathing : the countenance pre- 
fently became livid and bloated; the pulfe. 
was weak, and fluttering ; and the ey ex- 
pired in a very fhort time. I recolleét 
many fimilar inftances of fudden death, 
after expofure to cold during tke fevere 
winter in the year 1794-5. 
One of the cafes of {carlatina anginefa, 
which appeared flight ithe arf flage, 
began to affume the malignant form of 
that difeafe on the sth day, as {oon as 
the eruption declined. “Fhe patient was. 
a girl about three years old, who had been 
previoufly ina good ftate of health. At the 
time mentioned, fhe became comatofe': 
the eyes were dull and elafly ; the pulfe 
ufually 144, or upwards: her throat, 
tongue, and palate were covered with 
aphthe: a large quantity cf phlegm colleét- 
ed in the fauces, and produceda “rattling i in 
the breath; her cheeks were fluthed, and 
tumid: whenever fhe was roufed from 
her flumber, fhe was extremely irritable 
and fretful ; but foon after returned toa 
ftate of torpor and infenfibility. On the 
eighth cay the right cheek and eyelids 
were affected with an eryfipelatous tu- 
mour, which prefently clofed the eye. 
On the ninth, a confiderable difcharce 
began to take place from the eyes and 
noitrils, of a thim acrimonious fluid, pro- 
ducing excoriation, which was much in- 
‘creafed by.the little patients eonfiantly 
rubbing or picking the nole and lips. 
As foon as this difcharge appeared, the 
fecretion of the phlegm im the throat 
ceafed, and with it the difagreeable 
rattling im expiration and infpiration. 
On the twelfth day, the fore-arms were 
again covered with the fcarlet eruption; 
and patches of it likewife appeared about 
the loins and nates. The rath declined 
in. 
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