Medical inquiries and observations (Volume 3-4).

  • Benjamin Rush
Date:
1819
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    thors. Dr. Mosely, who rejects the epithet of yellow, when applied to the bilious fever, because it is only one of its accidental symptoms, very improperly distinguishes the same fever by another symptom, viz. the burning heat of the skin, and which is not more universal than the jellow- ness which attends it. 16. The cold and chilly state of fever differs from a com- mon chilly fit, by continuing four or five days, and to such a degree, that the patient frequently cannot bear his arms out of the bed. The coldness is most obstinate in the hands and feet. A coolness only of the skin attends in some cases, which is frequently mistaken for an absence of fever. In mentioning those states of fever which affect the arte- rial system without any, or with but little local disease, I wish to be understood that they do not affect that system only. On the contrary, they bring the nerves, muscles, lymphatics, and brain more or less into sympathy with it. 'Fhe last suffers most from those fevers which are derived from miasmata, and contagions, in consequence of their ])iissing directly in most cases, from the nose to the brain. I proceed next to enumerate those states of fever which be- long to the— II. Class of the order that was mentioned, in which there are local affections combined with general fever. They are— 17. The intestinal state of fever. I have been anticipat- ed in giving this epithet to fever, by Dr. Balfour.* It in- cludes the cholera morbus, diarrhoea, dysentery, and colic. The remitting bilious fever appears, in all the above forms, in the summer months. They all belong to the febris in- troversa of Dr. Sydenham. The jail fever appears likewise frequently in the form of diarrhoea and dysentery. The dysentery is the offspring of marsh and human miasmata, but it is often induced in a weak state of the bowels, by other exciting causes. The colic occasionally occurs with states of fever to be mentioned hereafter. 18. The pulmonary state of fever includes the true and bastard pneumony in their acute forms; also catarrh from cold and influenza, and the chronic form of pneumony in what is called pulmonary consumption. 19. The eruptive state of fever includes the small-pox, • Account of the Intestinal Remitting Fever of Bengal.
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