Lectures on the theory and practice of physic / by William Stokes.
- William Stokes
- Date:
- 1840
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![scrofula not so evident—Causes of scrofula—Damp and impure air the chief cause— Physiognomical traits of scrofula—Treatment, general and local—Scrofulous tumours; applications to—Enumeration of tissues and organs the seat of scrofulous disease —Modifications of inflammation by scrofulous diathesis—Principles on which the treatment is based—Depletion not prohibited—Mercurials, how to be used—Other alteratives—Tonics and narcotics] ..... 385 LECTURE XXXVI. Fever—General considerations on—Erroneous modes of investigation—Importance of the labours of French pathologists—complication of fever with local disease—Primary and secondary fevers—Relation of, to local changes—tendency to spontaneous termi- nation—Principles of treatment—Errors of Brown and Broussais—Researches of MM. Gaspard and Magendie—Their pathological conclusions—Importance of the knowledge of secondary lesions—Effect in preventing crisis—Treatment—Humoral- ism and solidisra ....... 407 LECTURE XXXVII. Intermittent fever—Definition and character of—Phenomena of the paroxysm—Cold stage—Internal congestions—Pathology of—Hot stage—Ague not a simple fever— Affections of various viscera—Theory of Broussais—Effects of bark, quinine, &c.— Modus operandi of ....... 417 LECTURE XXXVIII. Intermittent fever—Symptoms—Occasional irregularity of the paroxysms—Convulsive motions of the foetus in a pregnant woman during ague—Exciting causes of ague— Treatment—Complication with other diseases—Importance of careful investigation —Visceral lesion, how far contra-indicating the use of bark—Bark almost a specific in ague—Large doses of quinine in ague—Rapidity of its operations in some cases —Fowler's solution of arsenic—Prussian blue—Its advantages . . 425 LECTURE XXXIX. Use of quinine—Disease not a simple increase or decrease of vitality—Barks a specific in ague—To be given in the period of apyrexia—Large doses at considerable inter- vals—Arsenic followed by dyspepsia—Mercury, its effects in ague—Treatment dur- ing the paroxysms—Dover's powder, heat, laudanum, carbonate of ammonia— Pressure on large arteries to arrest the cold stage—Used in a case of hydrophobia with temporary relief—Gastric-intermittent—Endermic mode of using quinine—Bleeding in the cold stage—Generally with safety and advantage—Supervention of other dis- eases—[Miasm not a cause of intermittent fever—Visceral obstruction and inflam- mation relieved by venesection in the hot stage and in the interval—Cold bathing— Mercury—Modifying influence of climate—Effects of arsenic—Case of malignant in- termittent—Little variety of tonics necessary for the cure of intermittents] 434 LECTURE XL. Continued fever—Varieties of fever infinite—Typhous fever—Symptoms of typhus— Petechial, sign of typhoid character—State of the tongue various—Progress of the disease—Typhus produced by injection of putrid substances into the veins—Hemor- rhage from the intestines, &c.—Opinions on fever—Prognosis—Phenomena arising from each system—Jaundice an unfavourable sign . . . 454 LECTURE XLI. Nervous symptoms in typhus—Uncertainty of development—Opinions of Dr. Clutter- buck—Unfrequency of lesions of the brain in typhus—Occurrence of all nervous symptoms, independent of any appreciable symptoms of the brain—Nature and treatment of headache in fever—Delirium, researches of Louis on—Its treatment in early and advanced stages of fever—Pathological state of the brain in delirium—Use of wine and opium—Dr. Graves's remarks on—Nature of adynamia—Principles of treatment of the local inflammations in fever—Errors of the school of Broussais on this point—Use of stimulants at certain stages .... 461 LECTURE XLII. Opium in fever—Dr. Latham's opinion on—Symptoms for the exhibition of opium— Affection of the sensorium in fever—Adynamia, consequence of fever—Direct ady- namia—Indirect adynamia—Treatment of—Stimulants in fever—Dr. Grant's notions of fever—Symptoms of typhus—Catarrh of fever—Opinions of Andral, Louis, and Laennec—Bronchitis with fever—Increase of rales on decrease of disease—Affection of the gastro-intestinal mucous surface—Symptoms of Pneumonia and bronchitis—](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2115692x_0021.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
