A practical essay on typhous fever / By Nathan Smith.

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

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    The pulse is generally rather easily com- Bvt cay pressed, and when the disease is severe, has often a peculiar, undulating stroke or a se- cond small beat following each full one. _ The animal heat is always deranged in this Ail heat disease. In the commencement, there is generally some degree of chilliness felt by the patient, although his skin feels warm to the touch. This sense of cold often continues at intervals for three or four days. The heat on the surface of the body varies a a. in intensity at different times of the day, and is greatest during the exacerbations, of which there are generally two in the course of twenty-four hours. They do not however appear regularly at the same hour each day, but vary both in the times of their appearance and in their severity. | i In the commencement of the disease the most marked exacerbation occurs oftenest in the evening. The heat is ordinarily very unequally dif- ne unequal-. diffu used. fused over the body; sometimes the head ata xi? ey 9 trunk will be excessively hot, while the ex- - tremities are cooler than natural; at others,
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