Lectures on fever : delivered in the theatre of the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary / by William Stokes ; edited by John William Moore.
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- 1874
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Credit: Lectures on fever : delivered in the theatre of the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary / by William Stokes ; edited by John William Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Lect. XXXIII. CONCLUSION 435 the best condition as regards ventilation, cleanliness, and fitting nourishment; that stimulants are given when indicated ; and that the state of the bladder and bowels is attended to. Should symptoms of local suffering occur, you are to meet them-at least in the first instance- as signs of functional rather than of organic disease, and seek to relieve them at the least expense to the system. You ^Yl]l remember what has been so often impressed on you here and in the wards—always to consider the epidemic character; and that in fever danger arises from debihty-often an early effect of the poison; or, on the other hand, from the varied and inconstant forms of the secondary functional and organic conditions. To conclude, it would appear that the more fever and Its effects are studied-whether at the bedside or m the dead body-the less importance wiU be attached to anatomical change. It is to the varying condition of mnervation and of the chemico-vital states of the flmds that the great phenomena of Continued Fever are to be referred. In relation to the weighty question of prog?iosis, you will ever remember that the course of a fever will be favourable in direct proportion to the absence of anomalous circumstances-even though individually these may indicate freedom from disease P F 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21923176_0467.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
