A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

  • Nathan Smith
Date:
1824
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    COLD STAGE OF TYPHUS. yi ‘to extend itself. A few lines beyond the dis- coloured part of the skin, between that and the portion which still retains its natural tint, there is a pale circle, evidently showing that the action of the capillaries in that part is suspended. When local inflammation proceeds so far as to produce symptomatic fever, a degree of paleness accompanied by chills, precedes the increase of heat. Upon the whole, whether we consider 'T'y- Morbia action phous Fever as dependant on local inflamma- commence tion or not, it is probable, nay, it is very cer- ty system tain, that like all other febrile diseases, the morbid action commences and continues principally in the capillary system, anid that te 4 the change which we perceive in the action of af the heart and great arteries, is symptomatic fection of Sof the disease existing in that system. ica cried sy symptomatic. The most violent affections of the heart and large arteries, as in palpitation, do not. pro- duce the slightest symptoms of fever, which serves to show that these two parts of the circulating system have diseases as distinct
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