Volume 1

Clinical researches on disease in India / By Charles Morehead.

  • Morehead, Charles.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Clinical researches on disease in India / By Charles Morehead. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CiiAP. IE ] CHAPTER 11. ON EEMITTENT FEVER. SECTION I. THK DIAGNOSIS OF REMITTENT FEVEK, FROM INTERMITTENT FEVER AND ARDENT CONTINUED FEVER. — DIVISION INTO SIMPLE AND COMPLICATED. Remittent fever depends on the same causes as inter- mittent fever, but as there is present a greater degree of the derangements of function, which are character- istic of febrile disease, it may be assumed that this type will preponderate whenever the causes are most in- tense ; or, when not intense, are operating upon indivi- duals more predisposed. The evidence which justifies the conclusion that these two forms of fever originate from identical causes, and are merely different degrees of the same kind of derangement, is of the following nature :— It is often observed that in the same locality, when the conditions of malaria generation are great, the re- mittent type of fever prevails; but that when these conditions lessen in degree, then the type becomes in- termittent. It is not uncommon for cases of fever remittent at their commencement, to become intermit- tent before their close, or for cases that have been inter- mittent at the outset, to pass into the remittent type in their advanced stages. Instances are also not unfre- quently met with, which seem to occupy an interme- diate position, which by some would be classed as inter- mittents, by others as remittents,—cases in which there