A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
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1824
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Credit: A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sion, or how this first impression produces the ultimate effects, we are wholly ignorant. As for the proximate cause I know not how to separate it from the disease itself. Since the disease is known only by the phenomena sidered as constituting the disease, or all we Febrile dis- eases first af- fect the circu- jation: Or some one part of it. Proper func- tions of the heart, great arteries and capillaries. According to our late nosological arrange- ments, the Pyrexia, or febrile diseases, affect principally the circulatory system; if so, the affections of the other functions, are the con- sequence of the change first induced in this system. But as all the different parts of this system, are destined to perform different func tions, it may happen that a disease may pri- marily affect one part only, and the change produced in the rest of that system, may be the consequence of a change produced pri- marily, in another part. In the sanguiferous system, the proper function of the heart seems to be nothing more than to receive the blood from the veins, and throw it into the arteries, which may be
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