A sketch (analytical) of the history and cure of contagious fever / by Robert Jackson, M.D.

  • Robert Jackson
Date:
1819
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Credit: A sketch (analytical) of the history and cure of contagious fever / by Robert Jackson, M.D. 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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    111 other forms of the disease, and upon the whole, ill the more numerous, the pulse, differ- ing little from natural in point of time, was deficient in energy and expansion ; the heat, moderate in degree at the extreme surface, and on the extremities, was often sharp and pun- gent at the prcecordia, on the trunk of the bodj^ and even on the extremities, as closely pressed by the hand. The skin was often dry and arid ; sometimes flaccid and withered; sometimes clammy, greasy, and dusky in colour; it was generally tender of the touch, or impa- tient of pressure.. The aching pains in the limbs were often distressing; the pain in the head was ordinarily moderate, viz. confusion and muzziness, rather than actual pain. The tongue, as clean and moist, in many cases, dif- fered little from natural during the first days of the disease. It was sometimes smooth and pale, sometimes rough and moist, the roughness adhering firmly to its substance. A black crust or sooty pellicle, sometimes moist, oftener dry, covered its surface, not unfrequently at late periods ; sometimes the surface was smooth, glossy, or shining as if it had been covered with a coat of varnish; in such case, it was usually dry, even parched. The disease, under the form now described, rarely ceased, or changed materially the tenor of its proceeding, before the seventh day. It then sometimes terminated critically; sometimes changed character and
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