Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith.

  • Willan, Robert, 1757-1812.
Date:
1821
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Credit: Miscellaneous works. Of the late Robert Willan. Comprising, An inquiry into the antiquity of the small-pox, measles, and scarlet fever, now first published: Reports on the diseases in London, a new edition. And detached papers on medical subjects, collected from various periodical publications / Edited by Ashby Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in its particular features, and in the terms em¬ ployed, with Eusebius’s account of the her¬ petic or spreading Anthrax, and very “ ap¬ positely expresses the mode of diffusion, and the circumstances of the confluent Small¬ pox. Herodotus, a physician of Asia Minor, who flourished at Rome in the time of Domitian or Nerva, is the next authority, in point of time, adverted to. His description of the Loimos or Febris Loimodes is found to have omitted the appearances peculiarly charac¬ teristic of the proper pestilential fever, bu¬ boes and carbuncles; while it notices the existence of ulcerative, anthrax-like, herpetic exanthemata on the face and the rest of the body:—and observations present themselves in all the writers on Small-pox from Rhazes to Sydenham, similar to those made by He¬ rodotus on these eruptions, (pp. 295 32, notes.) Rufus, a celebrated physician of Ephesus, a few years posterior to Herodotus, is, in the fragments preserved of his works, in like manner silent with regard to the appearance of buboes or carbuncles in the Loimos. His relation of it, however, includes symptoms of different diseases; stating in particular, that, b