A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / By William Butter.

  • William Butter
Date:
1806
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Credit: A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / By William Butter. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The pulfc beats a hundred and twenty ftrokes hi the minute during an exacerba- tion, and about an hundred in a remiffion. The ftools have the fame multifarious ap- pearance, and worms are equally incon- ftant as a fymptom, in this, as in the other varieties of our fever already defcribed. When the difeafe takes a favourable turn, the fymptoms of recovery are nearly in the following order. The exacerbations are milder and Ihorter, and, of courfe, the patient is more wakeful. His eyes become firft clear, and afterward attentive. His whole countenance is placid. His tongue, gums, teeth, and lips are cleaner. He . takes his food with more eagernefs; and helps to feed himfelf. His voice returns. It is weak at firft; but it foon ftrengthens: and he exercifes it on every occafion; for he cries as often as he is uneafy, or is difturbed, or wants fomething, or is not able to reply to queftions, or not able or