An inaugural dissertation, on the rheumatic state of fever : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost : the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania ; on the 12th May, 1797 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Edward North, of South Carolina, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society.

  • North, Edward Washington, -1843.
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1797
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Credit: An inaugural dissertation, on the rheumatic state of fever : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost : the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania ; on the 12th May, 1797 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by Edward North, of South Carolina, member of the Philadelphia Medical Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ >« ] in the conrfe of a day or two, and fomctimes fooner, the patient is afflicled with an acute pain in fome one or other of the limbs, but more particularly in the vvrifts, moulders, and knees, affecling thofe parts alternately, fome- times abating in one joint and becoming more acute in another, attended with excruciating pain, darting along the courfe of the mufcles, which is always promoted by the action of them, leaving a rednefs and fwelling upon the part laft affe&ed. The pain in the joints after having continu- ed for ibmetime, becomes extremely fufcepti- ble of touch, but when fueceeded by a fwelling, it feldom occurs that it has not a tendency to mitigate the pain, though it does not always entirely relieve, nor fecure the joint againft a return of it. In the advancement of the difcafe, more confiderable remiffions attend the pyrexia.* the urine becomes high coloured, and a latcri- tious fediment is depofired, which does not occur in the commencement of rheumatifm. Though this dileafe evidently bears a ftrong analogy to all the other fpecies of inflamma- tion,! yet lt differs fr°ftJ them clientially by * Cullen's Firfl Lines, vol. i. -)- Ditto.