Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1683

CASPAR MORRIS (1805-1884) An essay on the pathology and therapeutics of scarlet fever. Lindsay & Blakiston 1858 [2nd ed.]. 192 pp. 21.8 cm.

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All copies of the first edition having been sold, the publisher asked Morris' permission to issue a new edition. Morris revised his treatise and, unlike his earlier work, presents his material as a long essay with no textual divisions. Unique to this edition is an appendix containing a reprint of William Douglass' (ca. 1691-1752) Practical history of a new epidemical eruptive miliary fever, with an angina ulcusculosa, which prevailed in Boston, New England, in the years 1735 and 1736 originally printed at Boston in 1736. Morris comments that Douglass' work is a "record of the earliest occurrence of the disease in the New World" (p. 54) and it provides one of the first accurate clinical descriptions of scarlet fever. Douglass' essay precedes Fothergill's account of scarlet fever by twelve years. Douglass, a Boston physician, used calomel in the treatment of smallpox and reported that he used mercurials successfully in treating scarlet fever.