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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    ous, being often above the natural quantity, and deposits no sediment. In voiding it into a vessel it often foams like new beer. As the disease advances, the urine becomes more highly coloured, and as it begins to decline, lets fall an abundant sediment. In very severe cases, the patient evacuates his bladder but seldom, allowing the urine to accumulate there in very large quantities. | rower ec The changes produced in the a iianiol the digestive apparatus are a vitiated taste, want of all appetite and desire for food, and a total loss of the power of digestion in the stomach. Sometimes nausea and vomiting take place; whether this last.is spontaneous or produced by art, the matter discharged Secretions of shows, that the secretions of the stomach are the stomach altered. entirely chapged. r Sometimes, the matter thrown up consists wholly of vitiated mucus, at others, it is mixed with bile of an unhealthy colony and consist- Veep ence. . é Ys alee Vee Peristaitic' xt weer he peristaltic action. of the intestines 1 is tionderanged. sometimes suspended, he: at others preter- naturally increased, and whether the stools —
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