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:
1874
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    singly, collectively, or successively, with or without corresponding anatomical change. In both, deposits of tubercular matter may occur as a secondary local affection. Similar exciting causes seem occasionally capable of giving rise to either form of fever. In ‘ relapse cases ’—I do not mean cases of Eelapsing Fever—the character of the second attack may differ widely from that of the first. Thus typhus may give place to typhoid, or vice versd. The petechial or the measly eruption of typhus may co-exist with the rose-spots of typhoid. Both forms are contagious, although in different degrees. As I have said, the principles of treatment in both are the same. These Lectures do not pretend to give even a sketch o( all that is known or believed to be known respecting Fever. iNotking will be found in them relating to histological research, the chemico-vital states of the fluids or organs, or the analysis of the laws of crisis. Ihe wide questions of the correlation or convertibility ol essential disease are barely touched upon. Some of the tacts connected with the change of type of disease, especially as regards the local affections of essential maladies, are mentioned. I have also spoken of the shortcomings of the numerical system in medicine, of