An Inquiry Into the Seat and Nature of Fever: As Deducible from the Phenomena, Causes, and Consequences of the Disease, the Effects of Remedies, and the Appearances on Dissection. In Two Parts. Part the First, Containing the General Doctrine of Fever, Part 1 |
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... takes place in the intervals of the paroxyfms of fever . In ordinary weakness , the person is unable to make the usual exer- tions of health ; in the weaknefs produced by fever , he is both unable and indifpofed to do it . The former is ...
... takes place in the intervals of the paroxyfms of fever . In ordinary weakness , the person is unable to make the usual exer- tions of health ; in the weaknefs produced by fever , he is both unable and indifpofed to do it . The former is ...
Page 57
... takes place in fever . In a few rare inftances , indeed , the mental faculties appear to have been reftored im- mediately before death , though they had fuffered entire derangement throughout the previous ftages of the difeafe * . But ...
... takes place in fever . In a few rare inftances , indeed , the mental faculties appear to have been reftored im- mediately before death , though they had fuffered entire derangement throughout the previous ftages of the difeafe * . But ...
Page 64
... takes place in fever , the muscles of infpira- tion must fuffer in fome degree ; hence the cheft is less perfectly dilated , and the blood , in confequence , more difficultly transmitted through the lungs . This gives rife to an undue ...
... takes place in fever , the muscles of infpira- tion must fuffer in fome degree ; hence the cheft is less perfectly dilated , and the blood , in confequence , more difficultly transmitted through the lungs . This gives rife to an undue ...
Page 67
... takes place , as is alfo frequently the cafe , the diforder in the circulation is easily referred to irritation or oppreffion of the brain ; for this organ is unquestionably , in certain circumftances , capable of influenc- ing the ...
... takes place , as is alfo frequently the cafe , the diforder in the circulation is easily referred to irritation or oppreffion of the brain ; for this organ is unquestionably , in certain circumftances , capable of influenc- ing the ...
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... takes place , or an exceffive fecretion from the liver ; and fometimes even falivation , as in certain cafes of finall - pox . The fame defect and inequality of action are observed in the other fecretory and excretory or- gans ...
... takes place , or an exceffive fecretion from the liver ; and fometimes even falivation , as in certain cafes of finall - pox . The fame defect and inequality of action are observed in the other fecretory and excretory or- gans ...
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action affection alfo almoſt appears arifing beſt blood bloodletting body brain cafe calomel caufes of fever cauſe circumftances cold confequence confiderable confidered confifts conftitute courſe debility delirium derangement difeafe diffection diforder diminiſhed diſeaſe diſturbance effential eſpecially exciting exift faid fame fays fcarcely febrile fecondary fect feem fenfation fenfe fenfibility ferve fhew fhewn fhould fimilar fimple firft firſt flammation fmall fome fometimes fource frequently ftate ftill ftimulant ftomach ftrength ftrong ftructure fubftance fubject fuch fufficient functions fuppofed fweating fyftem fymp fymptoms head heat Hippocrates hydrocephalus increaſed inflammation inftances irritation itſelf leaſt lefs leſs likewife malignant meaſure moft morbid moſt muſt nature neral nerves nervous obferved occafion opium organ pain patient perfons phrenitis pia mater poifon prefent primary feat pulfe pulſe pyrexia racter reafon refpect regard remedies ſkin ſtate ſyſtem thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion typhus ufually univerfal uſe vaſcular veffels violent vomiting yellow fever
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Page 68 - The remote causes are certain sedative powers applied to the nervous system, which, diminishing the energy of the brain, thereby produce a debility in the whole of the functions, and particularly in the action of the extreme vessels.
Page 79 - ... delirium and coma may be produced by various caufes, by opium and narcotics. But a miftake of a more dangerous nature may be committed, as we learn from the following important remark. ' There is a fpecies of delirium that often attends the early acceffion of typhus fever from contagion, that I have known to be miftaken for ebriety. Among feamen and foldiers, where habits of intoxication are common, it will fometimes require nice difcernment to decide ; for the vacant ftare in the countenance,...
Page 35 - Sometimes a fevere fixed pain is felt in one or both temples, or over one or both eyebrows, frequently in the bottom of the orbits of the eyes. The eyes always appear very full, heavy, yellowifh, and very often a little inflamed.
Page 33 - According to him, the patient at first grows somewhat listless, and feels slight chills and shudders, with uncertain flushes of heat, and a kind of weariness all over, like what is felt after great fatigue. This is always attended with a sort of heaviness and dejection of spirit, and more or less of a load, pain, or giddiness of the head ; a nausea...
Page 110 - ... kind of air, attracted by alkaline substances, is deadly to all animals that breathe it by the mouth and nostrils together; but that if the nostrils were kept shut, I was led to think that it might be breathed with safety. I found, for example, that when sparrows died in it in ten or eleven seconds, they would live in it for three or four minutes when the nostrils were shut by melted suet. And I convinced myself, that the change produced on wholesome air by breathing it, consisted chiefly, if...
Page 254 - Port-au-Prince, confifted of twenty-eight men. With them, no preventive plan was followed : in a. very few weeks eight died, and, at prefent, of the original number but fourteen remain.
Page 34 - A great torpor, or obtufe .pain and coldnefs, affcns the hinder-part of the head frequently, and oftentimes a heavy pain is felt on the top all along the coronary future ; this, and that of the back-part of the head, generally attend nervous fevers, and are commonly fucceeded by fome degree •of a delirium...
Page 38 - At this time the winds blew moftly from the fouth, and, after fun-fet, there fell an unufual and very heavy dew. This difeafe began commonly with alternate flight chills and heats, naufea, pains of the head, of the back, of the loins, and at the pit of the ftomach.
Page 110 - I had discovered that this particular kind of air, attracted by alkaline substances, is deadly to all animals that breathe it by the mouth and nostrils together; but that if the nostrils were kept shut, I was led to think that it might be breathed with safety. I found, for example, that when sparrows died in it in ten or eleven seconds, they would live in it for three or four minutes when the nostrils were shut by melted suet. And I convinced...