Outlines of a course of lectures on the practice of medicine, as delivered in the medical school of Guy's Hospital / By William Babington and James Curry.

  • William Babington
Date:
1811
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Credit: Outlines of a course of lectures on the practice of medicine, as delivered in the medical school of Guy's Hospital / By William Babington and James Curry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    20. With return of warmth, sensibility also returns, and becomes even more acute than before, especially to light and noise :—ulcers and other diseased parts grow more painful.— Mental faculties likewise restored ; but thought hurried and confused, sometimes even to de- lirium; and patient’s attention absorbed by his general sufferings. | 21. Pulse in the mean time becomes regular, dis- tinct, and full:—and in robust habits, or when pain or inflammation attend, often hard ;—but still frequent, though less so than in cold stage.—Respiration also more free and full,—but still rather frequent and op- pressed, till sweat takes place, which carries off the heat of skin, and with it the restlessness and oppression of breathing. 7 22. Such the assemblage and train of symptoms that usually occur’ in intermitting fever ; but subject to great variety both in degree and number. | 23. Change in Urine also requires notice, as anciently connected with theory of concoction; and still much attended to by some, as assisting to form judgement of solution or termination of the disease:—Urine durmg cold stage, nearly devoid of colour, smell, or taste,—and shews no cloud or sediment on standing.—As heat comes on, arterial action mecreased, and urine assumes high colour ; though still scanty and without sediment.—But when sweat has continued some time, and arterial action abates, the colouring matter deposited in red or laterzti- ous sediment. a
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