The physician's vade-mecum. Containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases. Accompanied by a select collection of formulae and a glossary of terms / by Robert Hooper.

  • Robert Hooper
Date:
1809
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Credit: The physician's vade-mecum. Containing the symptoms, causes, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of diseases. Accompanied by a select collection of formulae and a glossary of terms / by Robert Hooper. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sometimes it is confined to a particular part, as to the extre- mities, side of the head, &c. This-is succeeded by rigors, which terminate in an universal and convulsive shaking. , Of the hot stage.—After a longer or shorter continuance of shaking, the heat of the-body gradually returns ; at first irre- gularly by transient flushes, soon however succeeded by a steady, dry, and burning heat, rising much above the natural. standard.—The skin, before pale and constricted, is now swol- len, tense, and red ; and possesses an unusual tenderness and. soreness to the touch.—The sensibility, which in the cold stage was diminished, now becomes preternaturally acute ; pains arise in the head, and flying pains are felt over different.parts -of the body. The pulse is quick, strong, and hard ;—the tongue white ;—there is great thirst;—the urine is. high co- loured. Of the sweating stage-—At length a moisture is observed to break out upon the face and neck, which extending soon: be- comes an universal and equable perspiration.—The heat now -descends to its usual standard ;—the pulse is diminished in“ frequency, and becomes full and free ;—the urine deposits.a sediment ;—the bowels are no longer constipated ; respiration is free and fuil; and all the functions are restored to. their na- . tural order. fe After a.specific interval (vide Species) of intermittent fever: the paroxysm again returns, commencing as above described. CAUSES. 1. Predisposing. —Debility, however induced ;—by a watery, poor diet ;—great fatigue ;—long watching ;—grief ;—anxiety ; —the suppression of accustomed evacuations ;—the repulsion of. eruptions ;—preceding. disease ;—cold_united, with moisture in. whatever way applied to the body. B 2