The family physician, and guide to health : in three parts ... Together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of the Asiatic cholera: a glossary explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index; to which is added an appendix / By Daniel H. Whitney.

  • Whitney, Daniel H.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The family physician, and guide to health : in three parts ... Together with the history, causes, symptoms and treatment of the Asiatic cholera: a glossary explaining the most difficult words that occur in medical science, and a copious index; to which is added an appendix / By Daniel H. Whitney. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a: _ 1h : : : © 8 | (OF FEVER IN GENERAL. become flushed, the eyes are suffused, and the features gener- ally appear fuller than in health. This is called the hot stage of fever, which, as in the case of ague, goes off in a few hours, or may contiaue for many days, as in common continued bo fever. After the hot stages have subsided, the sweating stage com- mences. The breathing becomes free and easy, the pulse is softer, and the urine, after standing a while, deposites a sedi- ment or settling at the bottom, which is generally of a lateri- tious or brick dust color, though sometimes of a. whiteish \ er ; and the patient is now left free from. pain, but much exhausted, and subject to subsequent returns of all the symptomis’at indefinite periods, of uncertain continuance and severity. Although the above are only the most prominent symptoms w of fever; I have thought them sufficient at present, as; 1 shall have occasion to notice the more minute derangements of the fi animal functions, when treating of individual diseases. But here permit me to say, that the symptoms vary in the same - fever-on different individuals, and on the same persons in different places and under different circumstances. You will ask then, perhaps, will it not be difficult to know how to pro- ceed under so many different circumstances? I answer, there is nothing more easy, if we only remember one thing, and that is, that the same symptoms, wherever we find them, always require the very same treatment. You must there- __ fore make it an invariable rule never to prescribe for a name, : but to watch the symptoms, to treat the symptoms, and noth- ‘- ing but the symptoms. | ~ The first and most natural division of pyrexia, or fever, is ; into idiopathic and symptomatic. A fever sometimes arises | spontaneously, without any obvious cause. It is then called idiopathic fever. Fever again is sometimes occasioned by | an injury, or by some other local affection, such as swelling _and redness of the throat, acute pain in the side, &c. ; it is then called symptomatic fever. | _ The divisions of fever might be multiplied to a great ex- + tent; but all this would amount to just nothing at all ina practical point of view, and I shall therefore only make three divisions of idiopathic fever, viz: intermittent, continued, , and eruptive. dite faeris _. Tutermittent fever is that which comes on in regular fits or I es Ms te (ie > i]