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Practical illustrations of typhus fever, and other febrile and inflammatory diseases / [John Armstrong].

  • John Armstrong
Date:
1818
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Credit: Practical illustrations of typhus fever, and other febrile and inflammatory diseases / [John Armstrong]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 fiammation in the part affected; as an inflammatory affection of the chest often arises in the measles, though each may exist independent of the other. Some authors have contended, that the inflammation, which accompanies the complicated. forms of typhus, occurs with the fever, or even precedes it, and others, that it merely follows as a consequence. of the general excitement. According to my observations, the local inflammation occasionally commences as _ soon as the fever itself, but generally arises during the stage of excitement ; and hence, perhaps, it may be fairly inferred, that, for the most part, it stands in the relation of an effect, rather than a cause of the fever. If we reflect, that more or less visceral congestion attends the first stage, it will not seem improbable, that, by a preternatural distention of the vessels, it may leave a morbid tendency in some or- gan or other, which might pass iato inflammation, by the excitement of the second stage. It usually _ happens in mere symptomatic fevers, that the inflam- mation is limited to one part in particular, but this does not so generally obtain in typhus: for though one organ may exhibit by far the strongest evidences of inflammation, some other part will often be af- fected on a less degree; and this surely favors the notion, that the topical disorders are commonly the preducts of general excitement. But the mode in which inflammation is produced in typhus, it is not so important to investigate, as at what time the in- flammation takes place, what characters it assumes, and in what parts it is seated.
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