Lectures on feverHarper & Bros., 1865 - 235 páginas |
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... cause of fever , it is quite safe to say we know nothing ; and I need not trouble you , therefore , with an account of the various hypotheses on that subject . In regard to exterior influences , no one cause has been suggested , so far ...
... cause of fever , it is quite safe to say we know nothing ; and I need not trouble you , therefore , with an account of the various hypotheses on that subject . In regard to exterior influences , no one cause has been suggested , so far ...
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... causes could be discovered . It has been contended that fever is always depend- ent upon some local inflammation or irritation , as a necessary condition precedent and real cause , and that it never exists as a primary form of disease ...
... causes could be discovered . It has been contended that fever is always depend- ent upon some local inflammation or irritation , as a necessary condition precedent and real cause , and that it never exists as a primary form of disease ...
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... causing or being caused by the other . The humoral pathology , with certain variations and modifications , was the popular ... cause of the cold stage and the subsequent reäction , in some way not explained . Fever was , for a long time ...
... causing or being caused by the other . The humoral pathology , with certain variations and modifications , was the popular ... cause of the cold stage and the subsequent reäction , in some way not explained . Fever was , for a long time ...
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... causing death has been attributed to the agency of such lesions , al- though no signs of their existence may have appeared anterior to the febrile development . Stahl , Clutter- buck , and others , designated the brain as the seat and ...
... causing death has been attributed to the agency of such lesions , al- though no signs of their existence may have appeared anterior to the febrile development . Stahl , Clutter- buck , and others , designated the brain as the seat and ...
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... cause of fever uniformly in the mucous mem- brane of the digestive organs . One party professes to find this cause in an overworked brain ; the other in an overworked stomach ; and both illustrate their positions by autopsic inspections ...
... cause of fever uniformly in the mucous mem- brane of the digestive organs . One party professes to find this cause in an overworked brain ; the other in an overworked stomach ; and both illustrate their positions by autopsic inspections ...
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Términos y frases comunes
appears arsenic attack autumn become blood bloodletting body bowels brain calomel cathartics cause of fever character chill chloroform circulation cold stage complicated condition congestion considered constitutional contend continue course danger debility degree disease disordered doses early stages effects ence enteric fever epidemic influence eruption especially exacerbation exist fatal febrile action febrile excitement forms of fever forms of periodic frequently gastric gastritis given glands hepatic hot stage important increase inflammation intermission intermittent fever intestinal intestinal canal irritation lesions less local disease local lesions medicine ment morbid mucous membrane nausea nervous observations opium organs pain paroxysm pathology patient peculiar periodic disease periodic fever physicians pneumonia pneumonic fever prevailing produced proper pulse quantity quinia reäction reason relief remedy remission remittent fever secretion sedative skin sometimes stage of fever sthenic stomach strychnia subside suffering supposed symptoms tartar emetic tertian tion tissues typhoid unfrequently violent viscera yellow fever
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Página 35 - is a disease that affects the whole system ; it affects the head, the trunk of the body, and the extremities ; it affects the circulation, the absorption, and the nervous system; it affects the skin, the muscular fibres, and the membranes; it affects the body, and affects likewise the mind. It is, therefore, a disease of the whole system in every kind of sense.
Página 163 - In those cases in which the fever is the primary affection, the chill and febrile symptoms generally precede those proper to the pneumonia for one, two, or three days, and sometimes a longer period.
Página 163 - In some ra«cs all the organs are threatened in succession with disease; today the patient complains of gastric symptoms ; to-morrow of a tendency to cerebral congestion ; subsequently, to rheumatic pains, until, finally the pneumonia discloses itself.
Página 35 - As the eighteenth-century practitioner George Fordyce described it, A fever is a disease which no knowledge of the structure of the human body, as far as it is at present known; no knowledge of the properties of the fluids, as far as they have hitherto been investigated; no knowledge of the action of the moving parts, as far as they have hitherto been observed; could give the smallest ground to suppose ever existed. In showing its history...
Página 200 - Pantheism — atheism — in our times originates with philosophers and scientists and descends to the people, and, in the absence of all proof to the contrary, it is fair to presume that it was the same in ancient times. The corruption, alike of language and of doctrine, is always the work of philosophers and of the learned or the half-learned, never of the people. The various heathen mythologies never originated, and never could have originated, with the ignorant...
Página 107 - I shall have more to say upon this subject when I come to treat of enteric fever.
Página 203 - There is now a slight knuckle corresponding to those two vertebrae, and there is no longer any doubt as to the character of the case.
Página 174 - Few diseases are more fatal to the negro, in whom the vital powers are less energetic than in the white subject ; and the sinking stage of malignant disease proportionally more rapid.
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Página 161 - In another page the writer says: "Let us talk as learnedly, and refine, discriminate, and vary our nomenclature as we may, to suit the fashion of the times ; when we come to deal with plain facts, as they are presented to us in practice, this whole class of diseases, to which...