Medical lectures and aphorisms / by Samuel Gee.

  • Samuel Gee
Date:
1902
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    suddenly in a chronic disease is often prognostic of death within a day or two. 255. When severe abdominal pain is de- pendent upon caries of the vertebrae, aneurysm of the aorta, aortic regurgitation, pneumonia or pleurisy, the real disease is sometimes over- looked. XXXV.—OF FEVER 256. Sudden pyrexia, the temperature rapidly reaching 'a high degree, without any other signs of disease, seldom lasts. 257. Convulsions in children are often sufficient to cause high temperature—a rise of 9°-10° even—and this hyperpyrexia will prove fatal unless counteracted by cold bathing. In such a condition it is obvious that no treatment can be much worse than the customary hot bath. 258. HsBmorrhage may be attended by a rise of temperature quite apart from the disease causing the loss of blood. This is well seen in some cases of haemoptysis. With CuUen, fever formed part of his definition of h£emorrhage, ' Pyrexia cum profusione sanguinis absque vi externa.' 259. Frequently a convalescent patient, whose temperature will not settle down, acquires
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