Lectures on the eruptive fevers : as now in the course of delivery at St. Thomas's hospital, in London / by George Gregory.
- George Gregory
- Date:
- 1851
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Credit: Lectures on the eruptive fevers : as now in the course of delivery at St. Thomas's hospital, in London / by George Gregory. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![further exemplified in the phenomena of hydrophobia and lues venerea. In some cases, the skin receives the whole violence of the poison ; sometimes the mucous membrane to the exclusion of the skin; and in a third set of cases, both structures stiffer. The blood, too, may be primarily affected by the poison, even before the development of fever (illustrating the principle, that the eruptive nisus is independent of fever). Bttt other organs occasion- ally suffer, when the miasm is very virulent, or the body in an tiuhealthy state. Here we trace an import- ant bond of connexion between the eruptive and other kinds of fever. [In variola, rubeola, and scarlatina, Andral and Gavarret found the composition of the blood very similar to what it is in continued fever. Some analyses gave negative results, while in othere the tendency pf the blood was more towards hyperinosis than hypinosis. The maximum of fibrin amounts to only 4.4:, against which there is a minimum of 1.1. In the majority of cases, it does not differ much from Lecanu's normal average 3. The blood corpuscles are increased in a less degree in variola and vario- loid, than in scarlatina and rubeola. [Simon's Chemislry^ vol. i. 298.) Audral says that he has never met with the buff, unless there was some phlegmasial complication, either in inflammatory fever, in slight or severe typhoid fever, in measles, in scarlatina, or in variola. [Patlwlog. Hoematology—translated by Drs. Meigs and Stille, p. 56.)] In typhus fever, rheumatic fever, and remittent fever, we observe the implication of internal structures. These most serious aggravations of eruptive maladv, whether denominated secondary or tertiarv, may occur at all periods of the exanthem. They may accompany the first burst of eruption;—they may develope them- selves gradually during the maturative stage, or period of concoction, but they prevail chiefly towards the](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21055257_0037.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
