Volume 2

A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / [William Butter].

  • William Butter
Date:
1806
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the infantile remittent fever / [William Butter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    are hardly perceptible. During the hot fits there is an aggravation of all the fymptoms; and the patient is drowzy and fleeps but not foundly; for he flarts, moans, talks incoherently, and even fcreams in his fleep. The wind is par¬ ticularly troublefome, makes a rumbling noife in the bowels, and is exploded copioufiy both upwards and downwards, and with manifeft relief. The cough is more frequent. The breathing is much affected. The patient is often fick, fome- / 1 “T times retches, and even vomits phlegmy fluff of various colours. The pulfe beats from a hundred and forty to a hundred and fixty pulfations in the minute. In the remiffions all the fymptoms abate. The patient is wakeful, is at¬ tentive to things around him, often inclines to be playful, and is, in gene¬ ral, averfe to lying in bed. What fleep he has is ufually compofed. The pulfe beats
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