A Treatise on Febrile Diseases: Including Intermitting, Remitting, and Continued Fevers; Eruptive Fevers; Inflammations; Hemorrhagies; and the Profluvia; in which an Attempt is Made to Present ... Whatever ... it is Requisite for the Physician to Know, Respecting the Symptoms, Causes, and Cure of Those Diseases; with Experimental Essays, on Certain Febrile Symptoms, on the Nature of Inflammation, and on the Manner on [sic] which Opium and Tobacco Act on the Living Animal Body, Volume 2J.A. Robbins, 1804 |
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Page 338 - In some persons there is a certain vigorous and plethoric state of the system which, at a certain period of life, is liable to a loss of tone in the extremities. This is in some measure communicated to the whole system, but appears more especially in the functions of the stomach. When this loss of tone occurs, while the energy of the brain still retains its vigour, the vis medicatrix...
Page 346 - ... it is not certain but that a moderate degree of it may answer the purpose: And it is even probable, that, in many cases, the violence of inflammation may weaken the tone of the parts, and thereby invite a return of paroxysms. It seems to me, to be in this way, that, as the disease advances, the paroxysms become more frequent.
Page 300 - ... of their veins, cramps, and numbness of the feet and legs, and other strange sensations, often presage the approaching fit. The duration of these symptoms, previous to the fit, is various ; .sometimes only a day or two, at other times, -many weeks. The fit sometimes makes its attack in the evening, more commonly, about two or three o'clock in the morning. The patient...
Page 393 - I have known of its exhibition for the length of time prescribed, the persons who have taken it were indeed afterwards free from any inflammatory affection of the joints, but they were affected with many symptoms of the atonic gout ; and all, soon after finishing their course of the medicine, have been attacked with apoplexy, asthma, or dropsy, which proved fatal.
Page 712 - This objection is answered, by observing that our ideas of the shape, place, and solidity of our limbs, are acquired by our organs of touch and of sight, which are situated in our fingers and eyes, and not by any sensations in the limb itself. In this case the pain or sensation, which formerly has arisen in the foot or toes, and been propagated along the nerves to the central part of the sensorium, was at the same time accompanied with a visible idea of the shape and place, and with a tangible idea...
Page 247 - by eructation and discharge of air tends to " confirm the opinion that the disease is in " the stomach; but this relief may be "explained on the principle of removing " the distension of the stomach, and so '' taking off the ; pressure of this organ " from " from that which we believe to be the seat
Page 338 - When this loss of tone occurs while the energy of the brain still retains its vigour, the vis medicatrix naturae is excited to restore the tone of the parts, and accomplishes it by exciting an inflammatory affection in some part of the extremities.
Page 456 - It is indeed to be observed, that in almost every person, the taking food occasions some degree of fever : but I am persuaded this would not appear so considerable in a hectic, were it not that an exacerbation of fever is present from another cause ; and accordingly, the taking food in the morning has hardly any sensible effect.
Page 346 - On the other hand, acute pain presses for relief; and although a certain degree of inflammation may seem absolutely necessary, it is not certain but that a moderate degree of it may answer the purpose : and it is even probable, that, in many cases, the violence of inflammation may weaken the tone of the parts, and thereby invite a return of paroxysms. It seems to...
Page 346 - Sydenham has given it as his opinion, that the more violent the inflammation and pain, the pav roxysms will be the shorter, as well as the interval between the present and next paroxysm longer : and if this opinion be admitted as just, it will forbid the use of any remedies which might moderate the inflammation, which is, to a certain degree, undoubtedly necessary for the health of the body. On the other hand, acute pain presses for relief; and although a certain degree of inflammation may seem absolutely...