A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds

A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds.

  • John Hunter
Date:
1812
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Credit: A treatise on the blood, inflammation, and gun-shot wounds. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    kind of fever. To ascertain this fact, there- fore, we are to look out for that disposition, or that mode of action common to all fevers which are capable of producing this effect, with the disposition of the constitution, or of the part at the time, and we shall find that this kind of inflammation depends upon the constitution and part at the time, and not upon any peculi- arity in the fever, as is also the case with the small-pox eruptions, viz. they partake of the constitution. This common principle in fever, of pro- ducing local inflammation, is the simple fever itself, abstracted from every peculiarity. A fe- ver in all cases or of all kinds, is a disturbed action, like inflammation itself, which may be joined with any specific mode of action, and this disturbed action will always be according to the constitution, even when joined with any specific quality. The inflammatory fever is, perhaps, the most simple, because it is a simple fever on a constitution having no peculiarity of disposi- tion. The putrid fever (as it is called) is perhaps no more than the same fever upon a constitution that has a peculiarity of action under that dis- turbance, and therefore it proceeds according to that peculiarity. This ig well illustrated in specific diseases;
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