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 ... 1778. Together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna / [John Clark].

  • Clark, John, 1744-1805
Date:
1792
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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 ... 1778. Together with a comparative view of that epidemic with the scarlet fever as described by authors, and the angina maligna / [John Clark]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A fhort comparifon of the Scarlet Fever, as obferved by thefe authors, with our epi- demic, may: not be improper; as it will fhew the great. variety which obtained in this difeafe, in different fituations of this ifland, and nearly at the fame period of time. . The Scarlet Fever firft appeared at Bir- mingham about the middle of May, 1778; and prevailed to the end of November fol- lowing. From the defcription with which we are favoured*, it feems to have had a greater analogy to the Scarlet Fever of © Plenciz + than to our epidemic. The {kin was {mooth, without pimples or puftles, and was fo intenfely red on the 3d day, that the face, body, and limbs of the pa- tient refembled a boiled /obfer in colour, and were evidently fwollen. ‘The eyes alfo partook more or lefs of the general red- nefs. The velum pendulum palati, the u- vula, the tonfils and gullet were red and tumefied. No real ulcerations were obferved on thefe parts; but fometimes collections : of * See Dr Withering’s Account of the Scarlet Fever and Sore-Throat, &c. | T See p. 233.