Lectures on fever : delivered in the theatre of the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary / by William Stokes ; edited by John William Moore.
- William Stokes
- Date:
- 1876
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Lectures on fever : delivered in the theatre of the Meath Hospital and County of Dublin Infirmary / by William Stokes ; edited by John William Moore. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
24/328
![LECTURE XXXII. PAOE Treatment of the Nervous Secondary Symptoms of Fever—Headache—Cold lotions, -warm fomentations, moderate leeching, shaving the head, cold affusion, ice—Delirium—Treatment depends on (1) period of case, (2) presence of hyper- Eemia of the brain, or otherwise—Ice, leeches, shaving the head, cold affusion in active delirium—Nourishment and wine in passive or antemic delirium— Sleeplessness—Moderate leeching, cold affusion, ice—Turpentine in constipa- tion and tympany—Catheterism in distended bladder—Sedatives—Opium, tartar emetic and opium, hyoscyamus, bromide of potassium, chloral, wine— Convulsions—Most formidable in fever—Urajmic, due to (1) retention of nr'mQ: catheterism; (2) su])p7-ession of urine : dry cupping and poulticing over kidneys, diluents, diuretics, aperient enemata, promotion of action of the skin . . 237 LECTURE XXXIII. Phlegmasia Alba Dolens—The swelling is not always painful, or white in appear- ance—Symmetry of the affected limb not lost—Professor Trousseau's views as to the etiology of the affection—Phlegmasia (1) of puerperal women, (2) in scrofulous and (3) cancerous cachexise—Pulmonary embolism caused by phleg- masia—Case of phlegmasia after typhus fever—Treatment of the affection— General Conclusion - ^ . 245 Appendix B ........... . 253 INDEX 257](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21079304_0024.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
