On fever and its treatment in general : published by command of the King of Prussia, by the Higher College of Medicine and Health of Berlin, 1800 / Gottfried Christian Reich ; translated from the German by Charles Henry Parry ; to which are added, a preface by the translator, and an appendix by Caleb Hillier Parry.

Date:
1801
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Credit: On fever and its treatment in general : published by command of the King of Prussia, by the Higher College of Medicine and Health of Berlin, 1800 / Gottfried Christian Reich ; translated from the German by Charles Henry Parry ; to which are added, a preface by the translator, and an appendix by Caleb Hillier Parry. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hysteric paroxysm takes place; which, as well as each threatening, seems to produce some relief of the general irritability, though for a shorter tlhtiej and in a less degree, than the Epileptic fits. Once in the course of last spring, there was an in- terval between the Epileptic fits of twenty days j but then there were several interveninf^ attacks of o the slighter kindj and one diredl hysterical paro- :!rj^sm ; aftd the patient, through the whole inter- yfst], was much affefted with the convulsive twitch- ings, and othef uncomfortable symptoms. It is worthy of remark, that in these fits there is, at ' first, a sudden attack of violent convulsions, in which the patient intirely loses all perception. Then follows, for a very short period of time, ' perhaps one or two minutes, a state of quiescence and perfe£l: stupor; which is immediately suc- ceeded by another fit of violent convulsions. This had been the invariable mode of attack, in more than one hundred successive instances, till last spring, when I happened to be present at the be- ginning of a paroxysm. As soon as the state of first quiescence took place, while the patient was totally void of sensibility, I strongly com- pressed both carotid arteries; in consequence of which, as I had ventured to predift to the atten- dants, no second paroxysm of convulsions ensued. Since that period, the patient has had between thirty