Excerpt from The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, 1839, Vol. 19 The description of the affection, given by Sydenham,1s so good, and agrees so accurately with its appearances, at the present day, that I shall read it to you at length, and adopt it, in most particulars, in preference to more modern accounts. It cannot be amended materially, except by examining the symptoms with the aid of the numerical method; a task which, at present, I am not able to undertake. This excellent description of Sydenham' 5 shows his powers of obser vation in favorable contrast with some of modern times. His general account of the disease holds good 111 the cases which we observed at the hospital. Thus, our symptoms of the first day, like his, were chilliness and cold shivedngs. The second day we had the catarrhal symptoms, connected with coryza and the flow of tears, as described by Sydenham. This is the best sign to distinguish measles, in its incipient stage, from other exanthemata. In this stage, the other exanthematous affections offer no mark by which they can be diagnosticated with any certainty. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.