Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
February 17, 1795
Primary Source Reference:
Gazette of the United States (Philadelphia), 17 Feb 1795
Additional Source Text:
The donor, who was identified as from New Jersey, was likely Jonathan Elmer (1745-1817), a graduate of the College of Philadelphia’s first medical class, a member of the American Philosophical Society, and a prominent physician, legislator, and jurist.
Notes:
"In favourable cases the fever [scarlet fever] departs with the disappearance of the eruption and convalescence sets in with the commencement of the process of 'desquamation' or peeling of the cuticle, which first shows itself about the neck, and proceeds slowly over the whole surface of the body. Where the skin is thin the desquamation is in the form of fine branny scales; but where it is thicker, as about the hands and feet, it comes off in large pieces, which sometimes assume the form of casts of the fingers or toes." (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., vol. 21 [London, 1890], p. 376)
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