. An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa : particularly as it appeared in Birmingham in the year 1778 . o food, and apaucity of urine. Thefe AND SOR£ THROAT. 17 Thefe fymptoms are foon followedby an univerfal fwelling of the anafar-cous kind, and fometimes an fome patients the feverifh difpofitionruns high, in others it exifts only ina moderate degree. In fome the dropfyaffe6ls the brain, producing coma-vigil,delirium, blindnefs ; with the moft en-larged expanfion of the iris, which isincapable of contra6lion in the ftrong-eft light* In others
. An account of the scarlet fever and sore throat, or scarlatina anginosa : particularly as it appeared in Birmingham in the year 1778 . o food, and apaucity of urine. Thefe AND SOR£ THROAT. 17 Thefe fymptoms are foon followedby an univerfal fwelling of the anafar-cous kind, and fometimes an fome patients the feverifh difpofitionruns high, in others it exifts only ina moderate degree. In fome the dropfyaffe6ls the brain, producing coma-vigil,delirium, blindnefs ; with the moft en-larged expanfion of the iris, which isincapable of contra6lion in the ftrong-eft light* In others, the dropfy fallsupon the lungs, and produces everyfymptom of the true hydrops tongue is dry and brown ; thefkin harflr; the urine of a deep ma-hogany colour, fmall in quantity, anddepofiting a fediment of a ftill deeperhue, and in a powdery form. The urgency of thefe fymptoms,added to the very evident appearance B of xS OF THE SCARLET FEVER of difeafe, foon compel the patients ortheir friends to apply for affiftance,and the event, under the mode oftreatment hereafter to be defcribed,is almofl always favourable. ^IK^. AND SORE THROAT* i$ Of the Scarlet Fever^ As defcribed by Medical Authors, TH E Scarlet Fever in its fimpleftate, is not a very uncommondifeafe in England, but its combination^j^^j^^^^with a fore throat, as defcribed above,the violence of its attack, and thetrain of fatal fymptoms that follow;are circumftances hitherto unnoticedby Englifli writers. Sydenham gives-us a chapter upon the Scarlet Fever,in which he obferves, [a] that it ge- (a) Scarlatina febris, licet nullo non tempore poDfitincidere, ut plurimum tamen exeunte aeftivo Te prodit^quo quidem integras familias, infantes vero prae caeterisinfeftat. Rigent, horrentque fub initio ut in aliis febri-bus, qui hac afRciuntur, neque vehementer admodumsegrotant: poftea cutis univerfa maculis parvis rubris in-terftinguitur, crebrioribus certe et multo latioribus, ma-gifque rubentibus, at non perindc u
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