Colonial North America: Countway Library of Medicine

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Diaphoretics

with great and unexpected prostration, the vital powers being almost suspended, the temperature of the body alternately cold & hot, skin dry and pale, forehed smooth, eyes glassy, the pulse at first full and after a little depressed and tremulous, delirium and fatuity, stupor and lethargy, which symptoms occurred in rapid succession and ended in death, unless early arested. Another form in which it appeared was pulmonic congestion, chill succeeded by a fever, during which there was a great determination to the lungs evinced by labored respiration, flushed face, red eyes, and vertigo, the pulse was full, voluminous and strong, seeming to require depletion, from this stage the patient sunk into almost utter prostration, Anictas precordia, tension of the forehead loss of muscular motion, pulse extremely quick even to 140 in a minute