A practical treatise on the efficacy of bloodletting, in the epidemic fever of Edinburgh : illustrated by numerous cases and tables extracted from the journals of the Queensberry-House Fever Hospital / by Benjamin Welsh.

  • Welsh, Benjamin.
Date:
1819
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Credit: A practical treatise on the efficacy of bloodletting, in the epidemic fever of Edinburgh : illustrated by numerous cases and tables extracted from the journals of the Queensberry-House Fever Hospital / by Benjamin Welsh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ceed pains in different parts, as in the praecor- dia, limbs, abdomen or chest. The symptoms, of which they usually complained on admission, were as follow: Lassitude, with disinclination as well as inability to move the limbs, particularly after a little rest had intervened : Shiverings, with a sense of cold, described at times as resembling cold water, at other times like some cold animal creeping along the back; some of the patients felt this coldness as more rapid in its progress, and described it as shooting suddenly along the spinal canal : The sense of cold frequently alter- nated with flushings, and even with sweating fits, and in some cases succeeded regularly in the or- der of an intermittent. Headach, if not cotem- poraneous, was quickly superadded to these symp- toms j and this was found in every possible degree of variety. Sometimes the patient moaned much, and referred the pain to some particular part of the head, generally the forehead, -whilst the whole countenance exhibited evident marks of the op- pression that was going on within ; at other times the headach was moderate, but was almost always i present in some degree ; indeed, there were i many persons brought to us who seemed to have i no particular complaint, except this in a slight | degree, though evidently enough affected with | the disease, and after some time visited with its graver symptoms. B A