A treatise on the plague and yellow fever. With an appendix, containing histories of the plague at Athens in the time of the Peloponnesian War; at Constantinople in the time of Justinian; at London in 1665; at Marseilles in 1720; &c / By James Tytler.

  • James Tytler
Date:
1799
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Credit: A treatise on the plague and yellow fever. With an appendix, containing histories of the plague at Athens in the time of the Peloponnesian War; at Constantinople in the time of Justinian; at London in 1665; at Marseilles in 1720; &c / By James Tytler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ledge that there is acertain fymptom with which fever gene- rally begins ; and, by his infifting upon it in various parts of the work, we muft certainly be induced to fuppofe that it was by this fign principally that he determined whether his patients had a fever or not. ‘* The firft appear- ** ance (fays he) which generally takes place 1s uneafinefs “< and reftleffnefs; a general uneafinefs, the patient feel- “* ing himfelf ill, but incapable of fixing on any particular . ** part of the body. This uneafinefs affects the mind “at the fame time. Perhaps in this cafe it is the mind “ that is firft affetted. . . . . Along with this uneafinefs “there is a reftleffhefs, the patient wifhing to change * his place or pofture frequently ; the mind cannot like- “* wife reft upon one object; it often wanders from one “ to another fubject. At the fame time there is a feel “* of wearinefs which refifts the difpofition in the patient ““to change his place and pofture, and refifts the dif- © pofition of the mind to alter the object of its atten ““ tion, rendering the wifh for fuch changes ineffectual, “With thefe arifes an aCtual inability of exerting the “‘ mufcular powers, or performing any of the functions ““ of the body ; and alfo ana@tual inability of exercifing “* the great faculties of the mind, the powers of percep- “* tion, memory, arrangement of ideas, and of the judg- . “* ment, in the fame degree that they exifted in health. ‘© The degree in which thefe take place is extreme] <¢ different in the attacks of different fevers ; but ste ‘“* appearances are very rare/y abfent, although indeed ** they may alfo happen in other difeafes.” peels / Dr, Rufh accounts the laffitude with which fever begins, one of the tranfient phenomena of it; and this with other phenomena he calls /ymptoms. Such as are more permanent and fixed, and which by other writers have been reckoned different fpecies, he calls fares; and of thefe he enumerates forty. Such as have any relation to the plague are as follow. glass 1. The Maticnant ftate, known by attacking fre- quently without a chilly fit, is attended with coma, a depreffed, flow or intermitting pulfe, and fometimes by a natural temperature or coldnefs of the thin... .. : This
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