Collections of acute diseases [electronic resource] : taken from the best authors that have written most accurately of some particular acute diseases : very useful for surgeons that attend on the army, or go to sea : and for others that can't procure, or have not leisure to peruse large volumes : The first part contains all that the learned and experienced Dr. Sydenham has written of the small pox and measles, being the most exquisite description of the nature, and several kinds of these diseases, with the manner of their beginning, increase, state, and declination, as also of the various symptoms that accompany them, together with the most exact method of managing the sick, and properest remedies to be exhibited to them.